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Rare germline variant contributions to myeloid malignancy susceptibility

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Fig. 1: Myeloperoxidase (MPO) as a candidate susceptibility gene in myeloid malignancy.
Fig. 2: Autosomal recessive genes and Fanconi anemia genes have higher overall and truncating rare germline variant burden.

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The authors with to acknowledge the individuals and families that were part of the study presented here, as well as researchers who made the exomes and metadata available to us. This study makes use of data generated by the Cancer Genomics Project at the University of Tokyo, the International Cancer Genome Consortium, the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Genomes for Kids Study, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, the Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (TARGET) initiative managed by the NCI, The Cancer Genome Atlas. This work was supported in part by American Cancer Society grant 123436-RSG-12–159–01-DMC (TL), US National Institute of Health (NIH) grant R35 HL135795 (JPM), the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Spain (PI/17/0575), 2017 SGR288 (GRC) Generalitat de Catalunya, and CERCA Program/Generalitat de Catalunya, Fundació Internacional Josep Carreras and from Celgene International (FS). The research leading to this work has received funding from “la Caixa” Foundation (FS). This work made use of the High Performance Computing Resource in the Core Facility for Advanced Research Computing at Case Western Reserve University.

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Li, S.T., Wang, J., Wei, R. et al. Rare germline variant contributions to myeloid malignancy susceptibility. Leukemia 34, 1675–1678 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-019-0701-8

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