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This work has been partially supported by the following grants: RTICC RD06/0020/0035-FEDER, PI06/0824 and PS09/02430 from the Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Madrid, Spain; GRS206/A/08 from the Gerencia Regional de Salud de Castilla y León and Ayuda al Grupo GR37 de Excelencia de Castilla y León, Consejería de Educación, and SAN/1778/2009, Consejería de Sanidad, Junta de Castilla y León, Valladolid, Spain; FS/16-2008, from the Fundación Samuel Solórzano, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain and Fundación Carolina, CNPq- Brazilian National Research Council, Brasília, Brazil and by a grant from FAPERJ—Río de Janeiro Research Foundation, Río de Janeiro, Brazil. AR-C is supported by Fundación Científica de la Asociación Española contra el Cáncer.
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Almeida, J., Nieto, W., Teodosio, C. et al. CLL-like B-lymphocytes are systematically present at very low numbers in peripheral blood of healthy adults. Leukemia 25, 718–722 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2010.305
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