Quantitative detection of ALK fusion breakpoints in plasma cell-free DNA from patients with non-small cell lung cancer using PCR-based target sequencing with a tiling primer set and two-step mapping/alignment

• Kei Kunimasa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

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• Kikuya Kato,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan

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• Fumio Imamura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

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• Yoji Kukita

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ykukita@bs.naist.jp

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3523-2816

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