Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank all of the patients and their families for their continuing participation in our bone marrow failure studies.
Financial & competing interests disclosure
The work has been supported by the Buck Family Endowed Chair in Hematology, and by NCI NIH grants 2R01CA106995 to PJ Mason, and 2R01 CA105312 to M Bessler. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.