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This work was supported by the grants from the Department of Defense W81XWH-05-1-0214 (to T Skorski), and NCI R01CA100159-4 and the Stewart Trust Foundation (to C Richardson).

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    M Koptyra, K Cramer, A Slupianek & T Skorski

  2. Department of Biology and Center of Bioinformatics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA

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Dr Martin Carroll (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA) submitted the manuscript indicating that BCR/ABL induces chromosomal aberrations after genotoxic stress.

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Koptyra, M., Cramer, K., Slupianek, A. et al. BCR/ABL promotes accumulation of chromosomal aberrations induced by oxidative and genotoxic stress. Leukemia 22, 1969–1972 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2008.78

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