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Haptoglobin genotype and gut barrier-related complications of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation

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The authors thank the University of Minnesota Genomics Center for performing HP sequencing. This study was funded by a Marrow on the Move Award at the University of Minnesota to AR, an American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation New Investigator Award to AR, NIH P30 CA77598 utilizing the Biospecimen Repository in the Translational Therapy Laboratory and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core Shared Resources of the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, and by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health Award Number UL1-TR002494. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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Rashidi, A., Allen, T., Shanley, R. et al. Haptoglobin genotype and gut barrier-related complications of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 55, 464–466 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-019-0540-2

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