Bortnik, Svetlana
Tessier-Cloutier, Basile
Leung, Samuel
Xu, Jing
Asleh, Karama
Burugu, Samantha
Magrill, Jamie
Greening, Kendall
Derakhshan, Fatemeh
Yip, Stephen
Ng, Tony
Gelmon, Karen A.
Nielsen, Torsten O.
Gorski, Sharon M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3821-8289
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (OBC127216, PJT-159536)
Article History
Received: 20 December 2019
Accepted: 8 July 2020
First Online: 20 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: TON reports a licensing agreement with Veracyte, Inc. regarding the PAM50 intrinsic subtype classifier, not used in this study. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study and our access to the de-identified human data were approved by the Research Ethics Board of the University of British Columbia, British Columbia Cancer Agency and Simon Fraser University. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: No informed consent was needed as anonymized archival specimens were used in this study, according to the Canadian Tri-Council Policy Statement for ethical research involving human subjects.