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This work was funded by a Deutsche Krebshilfe grant (109031) to PAG and SKB, and a grant from the BMBF to SKB (NGFN Plus, PKL-01-GS0876-6).

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Greif, P., Yaghmaie, M., Konstandin, N. et al. Somatic mutations in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) identified by exome sequencing. Leukemia 25, 1519–1522 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2011.114

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