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We thank the patients and healthy donors for their samples and the research staff of the FIMM Technology Center, High Throughput Biomedicine Unit, the Breeze team, Hematology Research Unit, Minna Suvela and Siv Knaappila for their excellent technical assistance. We thank colleagues, Dr. Jarno Kivioja and  Dr. Heikki Kuusanmäki for their critical comments on the manuscript. The study was financially supported by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation - Tekes, the European Regional Development Funds, as well as grants from the Academy of Finland, Cancer Society of Finland and Sigrid Juselius Foundation. RK was supported by grants from the Cancer Society of Finland, K. Albin Johanssons stiftelse, Ida Montin Foundation, Orion Research Foundation, Oncology Society of Finland, and Väre Foundation for pediatric cancer research. AK received an EMBO short-term fellowship award and grants from the Cancer Society of Finland and Finnish Hematology Association. LH was supported by funding from the Integrated Life Sciences (ILS) doctoral program University of Helsinki, and a grant from the Cancer Society of Finland.
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RK and ML designed the study, performed experiments, and analyzed the data; AK performed data analysis (collection, preprocessing, visualization, and machine learning). AP performed the RT-qPCR experiments and analysis. LH performed the drug combination synergy analysis. DM provided drug-sensitivity testing data in AML cell lines. MK and KP provided patient specimens and obtained institutional review board approval. CAH supervised the study. RK wrote the manuscript. ML, AK, and CAH participated in the writing and editing of the manuscript. All authors contributed to and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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OK is a co-founder and a board member of Medisapiens and Sartar Therapeutics. He has received royalty on patents licensed from UC to Vysis-Abbot. His research group has a Vinnova-funded collaborative program with Astra-Zeneca, Labcyte, Takara Biosciences, and Pelago. KP has honoraria and grant support from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene, Novartis, and Pfizer. CAH has received funding from Celgene, Orion Pharma, Novartis, Oncopeptides, and the Innovative Medicines Initiatives 2 project HARMONY. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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Karjalainen, R., Liu, M., Kumar, A. et al. Elevated expression of S100A8 and S100A9 correlates with resistance to the BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax in AML. Leukemia 33, 2548–2553 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-019-0504-y
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