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Everolimus-Induced Remission of Classic Kaposi’s Sarcoma Secondary to Cryptic Splicing Mediated CTLA4 Haploinsufficiency

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Acknowledgments

We thank the John Brown Cook Foundation, Jeffrey Modell Foundation, UNSW Triple I SPHERE Clinically Accredited Group, NSW Office of Health and Medical Research, St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation, Allergy and Immunodeficiency Foundation of Australia (AIFA), Garvan-Weizmann Foundation, the David Cooper Memorial Fund, and NHMRC grant ID1155678 for grant support. This work was supported in part with federal funds from the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, under contract number HHSN261200800001E and NCI contract 75N91019D00024.

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  1. Immunology Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria St, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia

    Jin Yan Yap, Marcel Batten, Pei Dai, Elissa K. Deenick, Stuart G. Tangye, Cindy S. Ma & Tri Giang Phan

  2. The Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia

    Brian Gloss

  3. The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia

    Peter Hsu

  4. Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia

    Lucinda Berglund, Fenfen Cai & Pei Dai

  5. St Vincent’s Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Pei Dai, Kathy H.C. Wu, Mark Polizzotto, Elissa K. Deenick, Stuart G. Tangye, Cindy S. Ma & Tri Giang Phan

  6. Department of Anatomical Pathology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia

    Andrew Parker & Min Qiu

  7. Viral Oncology Section, AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Frederick, MD, USA

    Wendell Miley, Romin Roshan, Vickie Marshall & Denise Whitby

  8. Sydney Clinic for Gastrointestinal Diseases, Sydney, Australia

    Eric Wegman

  9. Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia

    Roger Garsia

  10. Clinical Genetics Unit, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia

    Kathy H.C. Wu

  11. Discipline of Genetic Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Kathy H.C. Wu

  12. NSW Health Pathology, Sydney, Australia

    Edwin Kirk

  13. The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Sydney, Australia

    Mark Polizzotto

  14. Clinical Immunogenomics Research Consortium Australia, Sydney, Australia

    CIRCA

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Yap, J.Y., Gloss, B., Batten, M. et al. Everolimus-Induced Remission of Classic Kaposi’s Sarcoma Secondary to Cryptic Splicing Mediated CTLA4 Haploinsufficiency. J Clin Immunol 40, 774–779 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-020-00804-8

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