Acknowledgments
Authors acknowledge the valuable support of Prof. Reena Das, Prof Jasmina Ahuwalia, Dr. Shano Naseem, Dr Narender Kumar, Dr Nabhajit Mallik, Mrs Parveen Bose, Mr. Jogeshwar Binota and Mrs. Minakshi Gupta of Department of Hematology and other faculty members of the Department of Adult Hematology.
Author contributions
PvS and SS wrote the manuscript. SR performed flow cytometry and FISH testing and collected the data. HV analyzed the flow cytometry data. MUSS performed flow-cytometry testing and reviewed the manuscript. PsS, NV, RJ, AK, DB, AT, ARK and PM provided patients’ data, reviewed, and gave final approval for the manuscript. SS designed the study, obtained the funding, analyzed the data, critically revised, and reviewed the manuscript. All authors agree to the content of the manuscript and its interpretations.
Ethics approval
Institutional ethics committee approval was obtained, and the research was carried out according to the Institutional ethics guidelines. All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.
Informed consent
Written informed consent was obtained from all patients in this study.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Data availability statement
Data shall be shared on request to the corresponding author.