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Letters to the Editor
1Shanghai Institute of Hematology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, National Research Center for Translational Medicine at Shanghai, Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; 2Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA and 3Department of Endocrinology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China.
*SZ, ZC and DJ contributed equally as co-first authors. Correspondence: ZHENKUN LOU - lou.zhenkun@mayo.edu
HAN LIU - liuhan68@sjtu.edu.cn doi:10.3324/haematol.2020.268474 Received: July 29, 2020.
Accepted: December 11, 2020. Pre-published: December 17, 2020. Disclosures: no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Contributions: SHZ, ZHC and DJ designed and performed most of the experiments, analyzed the data and wrote the draft manuscript; RHW, DL, QYX, FZ, GJG and WK provided technical assistance for the immunofluorescence experiments and data analyses; CJZ per- formed some experiments and provided expertise and extensively edited the manuscript; HL and ZKL contributed grant support, designed the entire project, wrote the manuscript and supervised the project. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript.
Acknowledgments: we would like to thank all the members of Liu’s laboratory for their technical assistance. We also thank the Core Facility and Technical Service Center (Shanghai Institute of Hematology) for generous support with cell imaging. We apologize for not citing all the relevant references due to space limitations.
Funding: this work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFA0107802), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81973996, 81900107 and 81570119), the Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader (19XD1402500), the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Gaofeng Clinical Medicine grant (20161304), the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission (2019CXJQ01), the Shu Guang project (14SG15), the Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, and the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation.
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