About the Authors
- Dora Dias-Santagata
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Quynh Lam
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kathy Vernovsky
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Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Natalie Vena
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Affiliations Department of Medical Oncology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jochen K. Lennerz
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Darrell R. Borger
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Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Tracy T. Batchelor
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Affiliations Division of Hematology-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurology and Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Keith L. Ligon
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Affiliations Department of Medical Oncology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- A. John Iafrate
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Azra H. Ligon
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Affiliations Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- David N. Louis
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Sandro Santagata
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* E-mail: ssantagata@partners.org
Affiliations Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
DDS and AJI submitted a patent application for the SNaPshot genotyping methods used in this study. DDS, AJI and DRB have been consultants for Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DDS SS. Performed the experiments: DDS QL KV NV AHL SS. Analyzed the data: DDS QL JKL NV AHL DNL SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DDS JKL DRB KLL TTB AJI AHL DNL SS. Wrote the paper: DDS SS.