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We greatly appreciate Drs H Suzushima and F Kawano for their kind help. We are also very grateful to Ms M Ichinomiya for technical assistances. This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, and Grants-in-Aid for Cancer Research from the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare.
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Matsuno, N., Hoshino, K., Nanri, T. et al. Transcriptional repression of the p15 gene predicts the clinical outcome of acute myeloblastic leukemia with intermediate and adverse cytogenetics. Leukemia 18, 1146–1148 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2403362
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