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Letter to the Editor

A novel TTC40–MSI2 fusion in de novo acute myeloid leukemia with an unbalanced 10;17 translocation

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Pages 1137-1139 | Received 02 May 2014, Accepted 15 Jul 2014, Published online: 20 Aug 2014

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