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Letters to the Editor

Patients with therapy-related myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia share genetic features but can be separated by blast counts and cytogenetic risk profiles into prognostically relevant subgroups

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Pages 639-642 | Received 05 Apr 2012, Accepted 24 Jul 2012, Published online: 21 Aug 2012

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