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The study was supported by grants from Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC) (Special Program “Molecular Clinical Oncology 5 per mille” AGIMM-AIRC Gruppo Italiano Malattie Mieloproliferative- project no. 1005 to MC, and my first AIRC grant MFAG project 15672 to ER) and by a grant form Italian Ministry of Health (GR-2010-2312855) to ER. A special thank to Dr. Laura Tassi and Prof. Giorgio Lo Russo for their technical support.
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Rumi, E., Milosevic, J.D., Selleslag, D. et al. Efficacy of ruxolitinib in myeloid neoplasms with PCM1-JAK2 fusion gene. Ann Hematol 94, 1927–1928 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-015-2451-7
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