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Original Article: Research

Associations of parental occupational exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields with childhood leukemia risk

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Pages 2855-2862 | Received 20 Nov 2015, Accepted 06 Mar 2016, Published online: 07 Apr 2016

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