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We would like to acknowledge the adult and pediatric bone marrow transplantation teams at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Christina Castellan for her help in the collection of clinical data, Anne Marie Gonzales and Rebecca Hawke for verifying the clinical and HLA data, and Nabila Noor for her assistance with KIR genotyping. This study was supported in part by the National Institute of Health (P01-CA023766, R01-HL088134, U01-AI069197).
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Tarek, N., Gallagher, M., Chou, J. et al. KIR and HLA genotypes have no identifiable role in single-unit dominance following double-unit umbilical cord blood transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 50, 150–152 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2014.218
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