Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Fondazione “Italo Monzino” and the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca contro il Cancro (AIRC) that made this work possible. EV is the recipient of a fellowship from Fondazione ARMR (Bergamo, Italy).
The authors would like to thank Dr Olivier Nibourel for sharing additional information on AML patients. They also thank Felice Deceglie for the artwork.
Potential conflict of interest
Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with the full text of this article at http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10428194.2015.1082180.