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Letters to the Editor
Corresponding author:
PHILIPPE KASTNER - scpk@igbmc.fr doi:10.3324/haematol.2021.279125 Received: June 10, 2021.
Accepted: September 17, 2021. Pre-published: September 30, 2021. Disclosures: no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Contributions: CS performed experiments, interpreted the data and wrote the manuscript; CK analyzed data; AC, CA, RK and MP pre- pared and analyzed patients’ samples; HC and EC provided clinical data;. SC and PK designed the research, interpreted the data and wrote the manuscript; BH performed experiments, designed and super- vised the research, interpreted the data and wrote the manuscript.
Acknowledgments: we thank members of the Chan-Kastner lab for scientific discussion and help, P. Marchal for technical support, the Group for Research in Adult ALL (GRAALL) for providing data of patients’ analysis, the IGBMC GenomEast sequencing platform, the IGBMC flow cytometry facility (C. Ebel, M. Philipps), the IGBMC animal facility (M. Gendron, S. Falcone, W. Magnant, A. Vincent), and the IGBMC cell culture facility.
Funding: CS received a predoctoral fellowship from la Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (LNCC). This study was supported by grants from Fondation ARC (PJA20171206372 to BH), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-20-CE15-0011 to BH), LNCC (Equipe Labelissée 2015-2017 to SC), Institut National du Cancer (PLBIO-2015-114 to PK and HC), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-17-CE15-0023-01 to SC), Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (Equipe FRM 2019, EQU201903007812), an equipment grant from LNCC Grand Est/Bourgogne Franche Comté (001K.2016 to SC), institute funds from INSERM, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, and the institute grant ANR-10-LABX-0030-INRT, a French State fund managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under the frame program Investissements d’Avenir ANR-10-IDEX- 0002-02. The GenomEast platform is a member of the France Génomique consortium (ANR-10-INBS-0009).
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