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CLL family 'Pedigree 14' revisited: 1947-2004.
Leukemia - 1 Jun 2005
Jønsson V, Houlston R S, Catovsky D, Yuille M R, Hilden J, Olsen J H, Fajber M, Brandt B, Sellick G, Allinson R, Wiik A
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The notion that inherited predisposition contributes to the development of haematological malignancies is generally thought of as being a relatively new idea. However, Videbaek made a clear enunciation of such a hypothesis in 1947, from a study of tumour incidence in relatives of patients with different leukaemias. To gain further insight into inherited susceptibility to chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), we...
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