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Funding Information: The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. The authors acknowledge Sociedade Portuguesa de Hematologia/Associa\u00E7\u00E3o Portuguesa contra a Leucemia/AMGEN for funding this work (\u201CBOLSA DE INVESTIGA\u00C7\u00C3O 2017 EM MIELOMA M\u00DALTIPLO\u201D). Funding Information: The authors acknowledge the support of the i3S Bioinformatics Platform, the Flow Cytometry Laboratory of the Clinical Pathology Department, and the Hematology Laboratory of the Clinical Hematology Department of Centro Hospital S\u00E3o Jo\u00E3o, Porto, Portugal. SP is supported by FCT through PhD fellowship 2021.07467. BD. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2025 Bergantim, Peixoto da Silva, Pinto, Pereira, Sousa, Trigo, Matthiesen, Guimarães and Vasconcelos.