About the Authors
- Lindsay Y. King
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Affiliations Liver Center, Gastrointestinal Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kara B. Johnson
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Affiliations Liver Center, Gastrointestinal Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Hui Zheng
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Affiliations Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Lan Wei
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Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Thomas Gudewicz
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Affiliations Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Yujin Hoshida
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- Kathleen E. Corey
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Affiliations Liver Center, Gastrointestinal Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Tokunbo Ajayi
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, North Shore Medical Center, Salem, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Nneka Ufere
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Thomas F. Baumert
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Affiliations Liver Center, Gastrointestinal Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Inserm U1110, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- Andrew T. Chan
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Affiliations Liver Center, Gastrointestinal Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kenneth K. Tanabe
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Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Bryan C. Fuchs
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Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Raymond T. Chung
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* E-mail: rtchung@partners.org
Affiliations Liver Center, Gastrointestinal Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
Drs. Bryan Fuchs and Kenneth Tanabe have been issued a US Patent (#8,323,896) entitled “Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) Expression and/or Polymorphisms Thereof for Predicting the Risk of Developing Cancer.” The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LK KJ KC KT BF RC. Performed the experiments: LK KJ TA NU LW BF. Analyzed the data: LK KJ HZ LW KC AC KT YH TB BF RC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW TG KT BF RC. Wrote the paper: LK KJ AC BF RC. Critical Revision of the Manuscript for Important Intellectual Content: YH KC TA TB AC KT BF RC.