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Acknowledgements<br />

I would like to acknowledge the contributions <strong>of</strong> many <strong>of</strong> my colleagues in the Wan Lam Lab<br />

who contributed to this work, especially the co-authors <strong>of</strong> each <strong>of</strong> the manuscript chapters<br />

presented herein. Detailed acknowledgements from the published version <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chapter</strong> 2 is listed<br />

below:<br />

<strong>Chapter</strong> 2: We thank William W. Lockwood and Timon P.H. Buys for useful discussion and<br />

critical reading <strong>of</strong> manuscript, Ashleen Shadeo for providing data for breast cancer samples,<br />

and Anna Chu, Byron Cline, Devon Macey, Andrew Thomson, Lan Wei, Reginald Sacdalan,<br />

Tiffany Chao, and Laura Aslan for help with s<strong>of</strong>tware development.<br />

I would also like to acknowledge generous scholarship support from the Canadian Institutes <strong>of</strong><br />

Health Research and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.<br />

The research presented in this thesis was funded by the following granting agencies: Genome<br />

Canada/ Genome <strong>British</strong> <strong>Columbia</strong>, Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute (CCS20485),<br />

Canadian Institute <strong>of</strong> Health Research (MOP 86731, MOP 77903), National Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health<br />

(R01 DE15965-01), National Cancer Institute Early Detection Research Network (5U01<br />

CA84971-10), Canary Foundation, and Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance.<br />

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