Genetic basis for clinical response to CTLA-4 blockade in melanoma.

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Published in N Engl J Med on November 19, 2014

Authors

Alexandra Snyder1, Vladimir Makarov1, Taha Merghoub1, Jianda Yuan1, Jesse M Zaretsky1, Alexis Desrichard1, Logan A Walsh1, Michael A Postow1, Phillip Wong1, Teresa S Ho1, Travis J Hollmann1, Cameron Bruggeman1, Kasthuri Kannan1, Yanyun Li1, Ceyhan Elipenahli1, Cailian Liu1, Christopher T Harbison1, Lisu Wang1, Antoni Ribas1, Jedd D Wolchok1, Timothy A Chan1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine (A.S., T.M., M.A.P., J.D.W.), Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (A.S., V.M., A.D., L.A.W., K.K., T.A.C.), Swim across America-Ludwig Collaborative Research Laboratory (T.M., Y.L., C.E., C.L., J.D.W.), Department of Radiation Oncology (T.A.C.), Department of Pathology (T.J.H.), and Immunology Program, Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy (J.Y., P.W., T.S.H., J.D.W.), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Weill Cornell Medical College (A.S., M.A.P., J.D.W., T.A.C.); and Department of Mathematics, Columbia University (C.B.) - all in New York; the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology (J.M.Z., A.R.) and the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (A.R.), University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles; and Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ (C.T.H., L.W.).

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