Best Practice & Research Clinical Haematology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 219-229 , June 2007

Risk assessment in haematopoietic stem cell transplantation: Impact of donor–recipient sex combination in allogeneic transplantation

  • Gösta Gahrton, MD (Professor of Medicine)

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doi: 10.1016/j.beha.2006.09.007

Best Practice & Research Clinical Haematology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 219-229 , June 2007

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