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Represents the percentage of share in collaboration development costs responsible by Janssen under cost sharing arrangement.

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Amount of costs of goods and services sold arising from collaborative arrangements, including, but not limited to, profit-sharing, cost-sharing, royalties and other shared costs incurred under the collaboration terms.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
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Amount of revenue from collaborative arrangement. Excludes revenue from contract with customer under Topic 606.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
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