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Identification of a novel PML-RARG fusion in acute promyelocytic leukemia

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Acknowledgements

We thank K-S Park, K-S Lee and T-Y Park for good practice performing molecular studies including sequencing and PCR experiments.

Author contributions

J-SH and C-SK designed the molecular studies and wrote the paper; YRD was involved in the management of the patient and providing clinical data; CL analyzed the next-generation sequencing data; D-HK performed cytogenetic analyses and FISH experiments; and D-SJ, N-HR and WL performed morphologic analyses and supervised the molecular studies. All authors read and approved the manuscript.

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  1. J-S Ha and Y R Do: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

    J-S Ha, D-H Kim, W Lee, N-H Ryoo & D-S Jeon

  2. Division of Hemato-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

    Y R Do

  3. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    C-S Ki

  4. Samsung Genome Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    C Lee

  5. Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    C Lee

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Ha, JS., Do, Y., Ki, CS. et al. Identification of a novel PML-RARG fusion in acute promyelocytic leukemia. Leukemia 31, 1992–1995 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2017.167

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