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Identification of a fusion gene composed of a Hippo pathway gene MST2 and a common translocation partner ETV6 in a recurrent translocation t(8;12)(q22;p13) in acute myeloid leukemia

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  1. Department of Hematology, University of Tsukuba Hospital, 1-1-1, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Shinichi Ogawa, Yasuhisa Yokoyama, Kazumi Suzukawa, Naoki Kurita, Masanori Seki, Koichiro Maie, Takuya Suyama, Naoko Takaiwa, Mamiko Sakata-Yanagimoto, Naoshi Obara, Yuichi Hasegawa & Shigeru Chiba

  2. Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

    Yasuhisa Yokoyama, Kazumi Suzukawa, Naoki Kurita, Masanori Seki, Mamiko Sakata-Yanagimoto, Naoshi Obara, Yuichi Hasegawa & Shigeru Chiba

  3. Department of Clinical Laboratory, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba, Japan

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Ogawa, S., Yokoyama, Y., Suzukawa, K. et al. Identification of a fusion gene composed of a Hippo pathway gene MST2 and a common translocation partner ETV6 in a recurrent translocation t(8;12)(q22;p13) in acute myeloid leukemia. Ann Hematol 94, 1431–1433 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-015-2391-2

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