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Original article: Clinical

The prognostic evaluation of CLLU1 expression levels in 50 Chinese patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

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Pages 1785-1792 | Received 27 Mar 2007, Accepted 19 Jun 2007, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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