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Prognosis and Characterization of Immune Microenvironment in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Through Identification of an Autophagy-Related Signature.
Denggang Fu · Biyu Zhang · Shiyong Wu · Yinghua Zhang · Jingwu Xie · Wangbin Ning · Hua Jiang
Frontiers in immunology · 2021 doi:10.3389/fimmu.2021.695865
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