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Acknowledgements
We thank Franca Sicilia (Jewish General Hospital, Montreal) for flow cytometry
analysis. We also thank Dr. R. T. Abraham (Department of Immunology, Mayo
Clinic, Minnesota) for generously providing the ZAP-70 deficient Jurkat P116
cell line as well as Dr. J. Hiscott and Dr. MA. Alaoui -Jamali (Lady Davis Institute
for Medical Research, Montreal) for providing access to needed equipment. This
work was supported in part by the Leukemia Research Fund of Canada and by
the Cancer Research Society Inc.
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