Acknowledgements
The authors thank all of the physicians and staff at the hospital and the cord blood bank in Japan for their help in this study. This work was supported in part by grants-in-aid from the Japanese Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research, and from the Japanese Foundation for Multidisciplinary Treatment of Cancer.
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