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MAGI3–AKT3 fusion in breast cancer amended

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Figure 1: Absence of MAGI3–AKT3 fusion in triple-negative breast cancer.

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  1. Juan-Miguel Mosquera and Sonal Varma: These authors contributed equally to this work.

  2. Mark A. Rubin and Sandra J. Shin: These authors jointly supervised this work.

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  1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, 10065, New York, USA

    Juan-Miguel Mosquera, Sonal Varma, Chantal Pauli, Theresa Y. MacDonald, Jossie J. Yashinskie, Andrea Sboner, Mark A. Rubin & Sandra J. Shin

  2. Institute for Precision Medicine of Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, 10021, New York, USA

    Juan-Miguel Mosquera, Chantal Pauli, Andrea Sboner & Mark A. Rubin

  3. Institute for Surgical Pathology, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland, 8091

    Chantal Pauli, Zsuzsanna Varga & Holger Moch

  4. Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, 10021, New York, USA

    Andrea Sboner

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J.M.M. performed experimental work and wrote the paper; S.V. performed experimental work and wrote the paper; C.P., T.Y.M., J.J.Y., Z.V. and H.M. performed experimental work; A.S. performed data analysis; S.J.S. performed project planning and revised the paper; M.A.R. designed research, performed project planning and revised the paper.

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Correspondence to Mark A. Rubin or Sandra J. Shin.

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Mosquera, JM., Varma, S., Pauli, C. et al. MAGI3–AKT3 fusion in breast cancer amended. Nature 520, E11–E12 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14265

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