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This study was supported by Award Numbers R01 CA177734 (to ALF), P30 CA15083 (Mayo Clinic Cancer Center) and P50 CA97274 (University of Iowa/Mayo Clinic Lymphoma SPORE) from the National Cancer Institute; CTSA Grant Number UL1 TR000135 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS); Award Number CI-48-09 from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (to ALF); Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic; and the Predolin Foundation.
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GH contributed to study design and conducted experiments. SD contributed to study design and analyzed data. HKB, JJ, BWE and LEW conducted experiments. YWA and YL analyzed data. PTG and RAK conducted cytogenetic studies. BKL, JRC, TEW, NNB, JSS and LJ contributed clinical specimens. RLB and ALF designed the study, analyzed data and wrote the manuscript.
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Hu, G., Dasari, S., Asmann, Y. et al. Targetable fusions of the FRK tyrosine kinase in ALK-negative anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Leukemia 32, 565–569 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2017.309
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