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Association between acute myeloid leukemia and isochromosome 6p: a case study and review of the literature

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This study was supported by the 2005 Inje University research grant.

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  1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Inje University College of Medicine, Gaegeum-dong, Busanjin-gu, Busan, 614-735, Korea

    Seung Hwan Oh, Si Hyun Kim, Sae Am Song, Ja Young Lee, Jeong Hwan Shin, Hye Ran Kim & Jeong Nyeo Lee

  2. Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 130-702, Korea

    Tae Sung Park, So Young Kim & Gayoung Lim

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Seung Hwan Oh and Tae Sung Park equally contributed to this work as first authors.

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Oh, S.H., Park, T.S., Kim, S.Y. et al. Association between acute myeloid leukemia and isochromosome 6p: a case study and review of the literature. Ann Hematol 89, 1283–1285 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-010-0940-2

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