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The authors thank the Eastern Cooperative Group (ECOG) and Children's Oncology Group (COG) for contributing specimens to this study. DS-AMKL and TMD samples from study COG A2971 were supported by the National Cancer Institute Grant nos U10 CA98543 and U10 CA98413. This work was also supported in part by the National Cancer Institute Grant no CA101774 to JDC.
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Bhat, R., Malinge, S., Gamis, A. et al. Mutational analysis of candidate tumor-associated genes in acute megakaryoblastic leukemia. Leukemia 23, 2159–2160 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2009.159
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