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Chakraborty, A., Lazova, R., Davies, S. et al. Donor DNA in a renal cell carcinoma metastasis from a bone marrow transplant recipient. Bone Marrow Transplant 34, 183–186 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1704547
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