About the Authors
- DunFa Peng
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Tian-Ling Hu
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Aixiang Jiang
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Mary Kay Washington
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Christopher A. Moskaluk
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Health Center, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Regine Schneider-Stock
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Erlangen University, Erlangen Germany
- Wael El-Rifai
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* E-mail: wael.el-rifai@vanderbilt.edu
Affiliations Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Wrote the paper: DFP WER. Involved in planning the experiments: DFP WER. Involved in performing experiments related to methylation and ChIP assays: DFP. Performed real time RT PCR experiments: TLH. Principal investigator and involved in the design of the study, interpretation of data, troubleshooting experiments, and supervising the work relevant to this report: WER. Participated in the writing and organization of the manuscript: WER. Analyzed and summarized the data, generated the figures and contributed in writing parts of the manuscript: DFP. Performed all formal statistical analysis: AJ. Provided several samples for the required analyses and assisted in reviewing the manuscript: MKW CAM RSS.