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We thank I Pico and AA Tarique for technical support, S de Bruin-Versteeg for assistance with preparing the figures, Drs AW Langerak, VHJ van der Velden and M van der Burg for fruitful discussions and critical reading of the manuscript and the EuroFlow Consortium for kindly providing the EuroFlow tools and the data on mature B-cell malignancies. This work was supported by a grant from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR-Fellowship to MCvZ).
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MAB, JJMvD and MCvZ designed the experiments. CG-W, HJA and DdR provided conceptual advice. MAB and CG-W performed and analyzed most of the experiments. DdR and MCvZ contributed to data analyses. HJA, KPM-O, HJA, SB, AO provided material necessary for performing experiments and data analysis. MAB and MCvZ wrote the manuscript. CG-W, HJA, DdR, KPM-O, HJA, SB, AO and JJMvD commented on the manuscript.
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Berkowska, M., Grosserichter-Wagener, C., Adriaansen, H. et al. Persistent polyclonal B-cell lymphocytosis: extensively proliferated CD27+IgM+IgD+ memory B cells with a distinctive immunophenotype. Leukemia 28, 1560–1564 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2014.77
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