About the Authors

Alba Ginés

Current address: Thoracic Oncology Laboratory, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Translational research in digestive tumours group, Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Biology, Health Sciences Research Institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP), Badalona, Spain

Sara Bystrup

Affiliation Translational research in digestive tumours group, Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Biology, Health Sciences Research Institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP), Badalona, Spain

Vicenç Ruiz de Porras

Affiliation Translational research in digestive tumours group, Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Biology, Health Sciences Research Institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP), Badalona, Spain

Cristina Guardia

Affiliation Translational research in digestive tumours group, Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Biology, Health Sciences Research Institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP), Badalona, Spain

Eva Musulén

Affiliations Translational research in digestive tumours group, Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Biology, Health Sciences Research Institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP), Badalona, Spain, Human Pathology Department, University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Anna Martínez-Cardús

Current address: Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC), Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Affiliation Translational research in digestive tumours group, Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Biology, Health Sciences Research Institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP), Badalona, Spain

José Luis Manzano

Affiliations Translational research in digestive tumours group, Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Biology, Health Sciences Research Institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP), Badalona, Spain, Medical Oncology Service, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) University Hospital Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Laura Layos

Affiliations Translational research in digestive tumours group, Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Biology, Health Sciences Research Institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP), Badalona, Spain, Medical Oncology Service, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) University Hospital Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Albert Abad

Current address: Oncology Service—UCCO. CIMA campus—Sanitas Hospitales, Barcelona, Spain

Affiliations Translational research in digestive tumours group, Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Biology, Health Sciences Research Institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP), Badalona, Spain, Medical Oncology Service, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) University Hospital Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Eva Martínez-Balibrea

embalibrea@iconcologia.net

Affiliations Translational research in digestive tumours group, Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Biology, Health Sciences Research Institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP), Badalona, Spain, Medical Oncology Service, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) University Hospital Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EMB AG AA. Performed the experiments: AG SB CG VRdP EM AMC. Analyzed the data: AG EM SB JLM LL AA EMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EM. Wrote the paper: EMB AG.