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We thank all the clinicians from participating institutions for clinical data of NT-AML patients, especially Philippe Moreau, MD, and Francoise Mechinaud, MD, at the University Hospital, Nantes, France, and clinicians from the German AML Cooperative Study Group. We highly appreciated the kind cooperation of Eliane Duchayne, MD, Toulouse, France and Norbert Ifrah, Angers, France. We thank Eva Sollich, MD, Pfarrkirchen, Germany, for providing follow-up data of two cases. Petr Lemež collected the data from all centers and wrote the first draft. Each of the authors contributed the data of reported patients, reviewed the draft, edited the manuscript and gave a final consent. Authorship is according to alphabetical order of contributing authors.
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Béné, MC., Castoldi, G., Derolf, A. et al. Near-tetraploid acute myeloid leukemias: an EGIL retrospective study of 25 cases. Leukemia 20, 725–728 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2404110
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