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. 2016 Oct;30(10):2083-2086.
doi: 10.1038/leu.2016.124. Epub 2016 Jun 2.

Germline heterozygous DDX41 variants in a subset of familial myelodysplasia and acute myeloid leukemia

S R Cardoso  1 , G Ryan  2 , A J Walne  1 , A Ellison  1 , R Lowe  1 , H Tummala  1 , A Rio-Machin  1   3 , L Collopy  1 , A Al Seraihi  3 , Y Wallis  2 , P Page  2 , S Akiki  2 , J Fitzgibbon  3 , T Vulliamy  1 , I Dokal  1
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Germline heterozygous DDX41 variants in a subset of familial myelodysplasia and acute myeloid leukemia

S R Cardoso et al. Leukemia. 2016 Oct.
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(a–d) Families with MDS–AML with variants in DDX41, their age at diagnosis and their respective Sanger sequencing traces. Affected individuals are colored as follows: red, MDS; yellow, CML; black, AML; and green, other non-hematological cancer. (e) Schematic of DDX41 protein showing the heterozygous variants identified in this study. CML, chronic myeloid leukemia.
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