Best Practice & Research Clinical Haematology
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 149-164 , June 2008

Polymorphisms of cytokine and innate immunity genes and GVHD

  • A.M. Dickinson (Professor of Marrow Transplant Biology)

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Best Practice & Research Clinical Haematology
Volume 21, Issue 2 , Pages 149-164 , June 2008