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The data supporting the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The study was approved by the scientific board of GEMFIN.
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We thank María Pereira for her helpful aid with the figures of this article.
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The Spanish Registry of Myelofibrosis was initially sponsored by a grant from Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. This work was supported by the grants PI21/00538, PI21/00347 and PI21/00231 from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spanish Ministry of Health.
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Pastor-Galán, I., Pereira, A., Arellano-Rodrigo, E. et al. Impact of somatic gene mutations on the risk of thrombosis in myelofibrosis. Leukemia 38, 2483–2486 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-024-02389-2
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