Bhattarai, Shristi
Klimov, Sergey
Aleskandarany, Mohammed A.
Burrell, Helen
Wormall, Anthony
Green, Andrew R. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0488-5913
Rida, Padmashree
Ellis, Ian O.
Osan, Remus M.
Rakha, Emad A.
Aneja, Ritu
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Institute at the National Institute of Health
Article History
Received: 13 February 2019
Revised: 7 July 2019
Accepted: 11 July 2019
First Online: 9 August 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Nottingham Research Ethics Committee 2 under the title “Development of a molecular genetic classification of breast cancer”. All samples from Nottingham used in this study were pseudoanonymised and collected prior to 2006 and therefore under the Human Tissue Act (UK, 2006), informed patient consent was not needed. Release of data was also pseudoanonymised as per Human Tissue Act regulations. We can declare that this study is complying with Helsinki declaration.
: The study was supported by grants to R.A. from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institute of Health (U01 CA179671 and R01 CA169127).
: Not applicable
: All the data and results generated during the study can be provided upon journal request.
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