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Risks among siblings and twins for childhood acute lymphoid leukaemia: results from the Swedish Family-Cancer Database

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Hemminki, K., Jiang, Y. Risks among siblings and twins for childhood acute lymphoid leukaemia: results from the Swedish Family-Cancer Database. Leukemia 16, 297–298 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2402351

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