Clonal diversity of recurrently mutated genes in myelodysplastic syndromes.

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Published in Leukemia on February 27, 2013

Authors

M J Walter1, D Shen, J Shao, L Ding, B S White, C Kandoth, C A Miller, B Niu, M D McLellan, N D Dees, R Fulton, K Elliot, S Heath, M Grillot, P Westervelt, D C Link, J F DiPersio, E Mardis, T J Ley, R K Wilson, T A Graubert

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.

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