Although we cannot exclude an unknown interaction between coeliac disease and chronic myeloid leukaemia in our patient, we think that preexisting hyposplenism may have favourably influenced the course of her leukaemia.We thank Dr L M Wiedman, Chester Beatty Laboratories, London, for the DNA analyses.
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