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This work was supported by Banca del Piemonte (Torino, Italy) and Piaggio S.p.A. (Pontedera, Italy).
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E.D. and C.T. conceived the study and wrote the paper. V.T., S.F., A.C., and S.P. performed the immunohistochemistry and V.T. and S.P. analyzed and reviewed the immunohistochemistry data. F.M. and G.M. performed the targeted gene expression, V.M. performed the bioinformatics analyses, S.G. performed the statistical analyses. S.M., A.V., M.C.F., M.C.B., and S.R. were involved in the data collection, R.P., A.R., together with E.D. and C.T. supervised the analyses and reviewed the paper.
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Derenzini, E., Tabanelli, V., Sammassimo, S. et al. Pre-existing immune checkpoints activation predicts relapse after allogeneic stem cell transplantation in lymphoma. Bone Marrow Transplant 56, 2280–2283 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-021-01320-y
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