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Cytogenetically cryptic insertion of PML segment into RARA on chromosome 17q resulting PML-RARA fusion in acute promyelocytic leukemia

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  1. Liming Bao

    Present address: Department of Pathology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA

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  1. Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA

    Timothy F. Burns & Elizabeth M. Bengtson

  2. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Geisel School of Medicine Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Eric Y. Loo & Liming Bao

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Burns, T.F., Loo, E.Y., Bengtson, E.M. et al. Cytogenetically cryptic insertion of PML segment into RARA on chromosome 17q resulting PML-RARA fusion in acute promyelocytic leukemia. Ann Hematol 98, 211–213 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-018-3399-1

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