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Letter to the Editor

Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction based quantification of the combined MDS-EVI1/EVI1 gene in acute myeloid leukemia

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Pages 2645-2647 | Received 02 Jun 2006, Accepted 13 Jul 2006, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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