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Highly variable clinical manifestations in a large family with a novel GATA2 mutation

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Mutsaers, P., van de Loosdrecht, A., Tawana, K. et al. Highly variable clinical manifestations in a large family with a novel GATA2 mutation. Leukemia 27, 2247–2248 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2013.105

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