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    "Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.",
    "Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.",
    "Division of Oncology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.",
    "Skåne University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center, Lund, Sweden.",
    "Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Cancer and Equity in Women, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.",
    "Salk Institute for Biological Studies, University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California."
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  "title": "Transcriptomic Profiling of Mouse Mammary Tumors Enables Prognostic and Predictive Biomarker Discovery for Human Breast Cancer",
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