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Brewer, B., Sharma, P., Gakhar, N. et al. Quality of life following cord blood versus matched sibling donor transplantation: pre-transplantation psychiatric and socioeconomic factors significantly impact outcomes. Bone Marrow Transplant 57, 1344–1346 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-022-01721-7
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