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Maintenance therapy with decitabine after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation to prevent relapse of high-risk acute myeloid leukemia

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We express our gratitude to all the participants for contribution to this study, and we also extend our thanks to all the patients and their family in this study. This study was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (81873443, 81400155, and 81500146), Frontier Clinical Technical Project of the Science and Technology Department of Jiangsu Province (BE2017655), Jiangsu Provincial Medical Talent (ZDRCA2016045), Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation of China (BK20150356 and BK20140374), Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD), Major Natural Science Research Projects in institutions of higher education of Jiangsu Province (19KJA210002) and Top-notch young health talents (to CQ), 5th Suzhou health professional program.

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Ma, Y., Qu, C., Dai, H. et al. Maintenance therapy with decitabine after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation to prevent relapse of high-risk acute myeloid leukemia. Bone Marrow Transplant 55, 1206–1208 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-019-0677-z

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