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We thank T. Yamori, director of the center for product evaluation of the PMDA, and the following other present and former members of the companion diagnostics working group of the PMDA: N. Sakamoto, A. Enokida, Y. Ohgushi, A. Ezaki, N. Komiyama, H. Komiya, M. Kanematsu, A. Nitta, N. Fuse, A. Hachisuka, Y. Kobayashi, Y. Onodera, A. Kobayashi, Y. Otsubo, N. Honma, S. Yagi, M. Gushima, Y. Sakamoto, Y. Asahina, K. Kato, S. Tokuhiro, H. Nakamura, Y. Yamagishi, A. Sugawara, Y. Ohta, H. Sekizaki, Y. Satake, A. Ishiguro, T. Makino, T. Nonaka, Y. Uyama, S. Miyazaki, M. Shibatsuji, D. Sato, N. Kono, T. Sato, T. Tawaragi, H. Yamamoto and K. Shigeto.
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Nagai, S., Urata, M., Sato, H. et al. Evolving Japanese regulations on companion diagnostics. Nat Biotechnol 34, 141–144 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3478
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