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Bulsufan decreases the incidence of mixed chimaerism in HLA-matched donor transplantation for severe aplastic anaemia

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Fig. 1: EFS in the two cohorts.

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This work was partly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 82100227), Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81621001), and The National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFA0104500).

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Xu, LP., Xu, ZL., Zhang, YY. et al. Bulsufan decreases the incidence of mixed chimaerism in HLA-matched donor transplantation for severe aplastic anaemia. Bone Marrow Transplant 57, 1204–1206 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-022-01682-x

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