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We thank J. Flint and S. Knight for supplying the second-generation subtelomeric probes; V. Buckle for critical reading of the manuscript; and M. Schulze for modifications to the MacProbe v4.1 software. This work was supported in part by the Leukaemia Research Fund, UK (to J.B.) and the Medical Research Council (to L.K). R.E. was supported by the German Minister for Education and Research (BMBF, BioFuture grant AZ 11880), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Ja 395/6-2; Ei-358/1-1) and the German-Israeli foundation for research and technology (GIF G-112-207.04/97).
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Brown, J., Saracoglu, K., Uhrig, S. et al. Subtelomeric chromosome rearrangements are detected using an innovative 12-color FISH assay (M-TEL). Nat Med 7, 497–501 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/86581
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