Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to Lamya Haddaoui (TumourBank for the Groupe Ouest Est d’Etude des Leucémies aiguës et Autres Maladies du Sang [GOELAMS], Hôpital Cochin, Paris) and Christophe Roumier (Tumour Bank for the Acute Leukemia French Association [ALFA] group, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille) for handling and storing patient samples. The work of all clinical research assistants of the GOELAMS and ALFA groups is also acknowledged here.
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This work was supported by the French National Cancer Institute, the French Ministry of Health (hospital program for clinical research, 2006-0213), a grant from the Laurette Fugain Association and the translational research program (PRTK 2012-43-CARAMELE).