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To the Editor: Lynch et al. (July 10 issue)¹ report on a family in which members had multiple myeloma or other tumors. Using the Utah Population Database, a resource including 2.5 million persons with genealogic data linked to the Utah Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) cancer registry, we investigated the aggregation of multiple myeloma and coaggregation of multiple myeloma with other cancers. Aggregation beyond first-degree relatives is particularly interesting as a way of separating the role of genetics from that of a shared environment. We were able to perform these more extensive familial analyses using the Utah resource through . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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