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We thank all the patients and their families at St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital (SJCRH) for their contribution of the biological
specimens used in this study. We also thank the Biorepository, the
Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Core, and the Hartwell Center
for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology at SJCRH for their essential
services. Julie Justice in the Anatomic Pathology lab established the
IHC for UBTF. This work was funded by the American Lebanese and
Syrian Associated Charities of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
and grants from the NIH (P30 CA021765, Cancer Center Support
Grant and a Developmental Fund Award, to J.M. Klco and X. Ma).
This work was also supported in part by the Fund for Innovation in
Cancer Informatics (www.the-ici-fund.org, to X. Ma and J.M. Klco),
St. Baldrick’s Consortium Grant (to S. Meshinchi), Target Pediatric
AML (to S. Meshinchi), Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (6558-18,
to S. Meshinchi), National Institutes of Health (R01-CA114563-10
and HHSN-261200800001E, to S. Meshinchi), COG Chair’s Grant
U10-CA098543 (to S. Meshinchi), Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation (to S. Meshinchi), Hyundai Hope on Wheels (to S. Meshinchi),
NCTN Statistics & Data Center U10-CA180899 (to S. Meshinchi and
T.A. Alonzo), NCTN Operations Center Grant U10CA180886 (to
S. Meshinchi), and Project Stella (to S. Meshinchi). J.M. Klco holds
a Career Award for Medical Scientists from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and is a previous recipient of the V Foundation Scholar
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