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ESR1 gene amplification in breast cancer: a common phenomenon?

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Acknowledgements

D.G.H. was supported in part by a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Senior Clinical Investigator grant. A.A.Z. and S.L. were supported in part from an unrestricted educational grant from Sanofi Aventis. S.-F.C., A.E.T., J.C.M. and C.C. are funded by Cancer Research UK. M.E., Y.T. and J.H. are funded in part by the US National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute R01 CA095614 and the St. Louis Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.

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  1. David G Huntsman and Carlos Caldas: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Center for Translational and Applied Genomics, and the British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, V5Z 4E6, British Columbia, Canada

    Lindsay A Brown, Abd Alnaser Zayed & David G Huntsman

  2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, British Columbia, Canada

    Lindsay A Brown, Abd Alnaser Zayed & David G Huntsman

  3. Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, 63110, Missouri, USA

    Jeremy Hoog, Yu Tao & Matthew Ellis

  4. Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institutes, Li Ka Shing Centre, CB2 0RE, Cambridge, UK

    Suet-Feung Chin, Andrew E Teschendorff & Carlos Caldas

  5. Department of Oncology, Cambridge University, CB2 0RE, Cambridge, UK

    Suet-Feung Chin, Andrew E Teschendorff & Carlos Caldas

  6. Comprehensive Cancer Centre, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, California, USA

    Koei Chin & Joe W Gray

  7. Department of Pathology, University of Utah Health Sciences Centre, Salt Lake City, 84112, Utah, USA

    John F Quackenbush & Philip S Bernard

  8. Cambridge Research Institute and Department of Oncology, Computational Biology Group, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge University, CB2 0RE, Cambridge, UK

    John C Marioni

  9. Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre, Vancouver, V6H 3Z6, British Columbia, Canada

    Samuel Leung, Torsten O Neilsen & David G Huntsman

  10. Department of Pathology of Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, V5Z 1M9, British Columbia, Canada

    Samuel Leung, Torsten O Neilsen & David G Huntsman

  11. Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Departments of Genetics and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27599, North Carolina, USA

    Charles M Perou

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Brown, L., Hoog, J., Chin, SF. et al. ESR1 gene amplification in breast cancer: a common phenomenon?. Nat Genet 40, 806–807 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0708-806

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