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It is common practice to explain deviations between data and Standard-Model predictions by postulating new particles at the TeV scale ad-hoc. This approach becomes much more convincing, if one successfully embeds the postulated particles into a UV completion which addresses other conceptual or phenomenological shortcomings of the SM. We present a study of an SO(10) grand unified theory which contains scalar leptoquark fields employed to explain the flavor anomalies in $b\rightarrow s$ and $b\rightarrow c$ decays. We find that the additional degrees of freedom improve the renormalization group evolution of the SM parameters and may explain some of the observed fermion masses.