Reviewer's report 
 Maternal Microchimerism in the Livers of Patients with Biliary Atresia Title: 
 2  22 July 2004 Version: Date: 
 Tatsuo Ichinohe Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
The authors' thorough and well-detailed response was very helpful and made this work more 
definitive. I think this work includes sufficient new informations to the readers of BMC Gatroenterology. 
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Declaration of competing interests: 
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Reviewer's report 
 Maternal Microchimerism in the Livers of Patients with Biliary Atresia Title: 
 2  22 July 2004 Version: Date: 
 Tatsuo Ichinohe Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
The authors' thorough and well-detailed response was very helpful and made this work more 
definitive. I think this work includes sufficient new informations to the readers of BMC Gatroenterology. 
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can be reached) 
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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author can be trusted to correct) 
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Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept without revision What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
None 
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report 
 Maternal Microchimerism in the Livers of Patients with Biliary Atresia Title: 
 2  22 July 2004 Version: Date: 
 Tatsuo Ichinohe Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
The authors' thorough and well-detailed response was very helpful and made this work more 
definitive. I think this work includes sufficient new informations to the readers of BMC Gatroenterology. 
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can be reached) 
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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author can be trusted to correct) 
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Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept without revision What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
None 
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