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Fanning, L., Hegerfeldt, Y., Tary-Lehmann, M. et al. Allogeneic transplantation of multiple umbilical cord blood units in adults: role of pretransplant-mixed lymphocyte reaction to predict host-vs-graft rejection. Leukemia 22, 1786–1790 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2008.55
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