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This work was supported by the ‘Children's Cancer Foundation Salzburg’ and the ‘Vereinigung zur Foerderung der paediatrischen Forschung und Fortbildung Salzburg’.

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    D Meierhofer, S Ebner, J A Mayr, N D Jones, B Kofler & W Sperl

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Meierhofer, D., Ebner, S., Mayr, J. et al. Platelet transfusion can mimic somatic mtDNA mutations. Leukemia 20, 362–363 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2404070

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