1. Department of Internal Medicine,
2. Department of Experimental Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, and
3. Department of Cell Biology, Anatomy and Physiological Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon;
4. INSERM/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/University Paris Diderot, Unités Mixtes de Recherche 944/7212, Collège de France and Equipe labellisée Ligue contre le Cancer,
5. Service d’Hématologie Clinique, and
6. Service d’Hématologie Senior, Hôpital St. Louis, Paris, France;
7. Service d’Hématologie Clinique, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny, France;
8. INSERM U938, and
9. Service d’Hématologie, Hôpital St. Antoine, Paris, France;
10. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France;
11. ER045, Laboratory of Stem Cells, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon; and
12. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon