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We thank the medical, nursing, data-processing, laboratory and clinical staff at the participating centers for their important contributions to this study and their dedicated patient care. This work was supported by grants from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and the National Cancer Research and Development Fund (23-A-28).
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Fuji, S., Kim, SW., Yano, S. et al. A prospective multicenter study of unrelated bone marrow transplants using a reduced-intensity conditioning regimen with low-dose ATG-F. Bone Marrow Transplant 51, 451–453 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2015.268
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