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Simultaneous occurrence of acute myeloid leukaemia with mutated nucleophosmin (NPM1) in the same family

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Acknowledgements

Supported by the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC), MIUR PRIN and Fondazione Cariplo (to GC and AB). LLN was supported by IBISCUS. This work was supported by MIUR (Ministero Università e Ricerca) through a FIRB grant RBLA03ER38 and funds to Interdisciplinary Center for Biomolecular Studies and Industrial Applications (CISI) and Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies, University of Milan, Italy. We thank Dr GA Boyd for editorial assistance. B Falini has applied for a patent on the clinical use of NPM mutants.

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  1. G Cazzaniga and L Lo Nigro: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Centro Ricerca Tettamanti, Clinica Pediatrica, Ospedale San Gerardo, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy

    G Cazzaniga & A Biondi

  2. Center of Pediatric Haematology Oncology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

    L Lo Nigro & E Mirabile

  3. Institute of Biomedical Technologies (ITB), National Research Council (CNR), Milan, Italy

    I Cifola

  4. Institute of Haematology, Ospedale Ferrarotto, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

    G Milone & F Di Raimondo

  5. MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany

    S Schnittger & T Haferlach

  6. Ospedale Cannizzaro, Catania, Italy

    F Costantino

  7. Section of Haematology and Immunology, IBit Foundation, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    M P Martelli, E Mastrodicasa, F Aversa & B Falini

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Cazzaniga, G., Lo Nigro, L., Cifola, I. et al. Simultaneous occurrence of acute myeloid leukaemia with mutated nucleophosmin (NPM1) in the same family. Leukemia 23, 199–203 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2008.170

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