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This work was supported by grants from Ligue Contre le Cancer (Equipe labellisée LIGUE 2018) and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR: projet EpiSwitch-3′RR 2016). N.G. was supported by a grant from Association de Spécialisation et d’Orientation Scientifique (Lebanon), the municipality of Khiam (Lebanon) and the Société Française d’Hématologie. H.I. is supported by a fellowship from the University of Limoges. F.B. is supported by Fondation Partenariale de l′Université de Limoges and ALURAD. We thank the flow cytometry facility of the Limoges University for B-cell sorting.
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Hussein, I., Nour, G., François, B. et al. Deletion of the immunoglobulin heavy chain 3′ regulatory region super-enhancer affects somatic hypermutation in B1 B cells. Cell Mol Immunol 16, 195–197 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-018-0091-2
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