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Concordance for childhood cancer in twins
1 Apr 1996
Abstract excerpt
The causes of most childhood cancer remain elusive; some children clearly have a genetic predisposition, but in the majority the relative contributions of environmental and host factors are not established. One approach to this question is through twin concordance studies, but only the most common malignancy, acute leukemia, has been studied to date, owing to the rarity of other forms of childhood cancer. The aim...
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