About the Authors

Zsuzsanna A. Dunai

zsuzsanna.dunai@gmail.com

Affiliations 1st Department of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, Department of Pathogenetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary

Gergely Imre

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry II, Medical Faculty of the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Gabor Barna

Affiliation 1st Department of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Tamas Korcsmaros

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary

Istvan Petak

Affiliations KPS Medical Biotechnology and Healthcare Services Ltd, Budapest, Hungary, Department of Medical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pathobiochemistry, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Pal I. Bauer

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Rudolf Mihalik

Affiliation Department of Pathogenetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: IP is an employee of KPS Medical Biotechnology and Healthcare Services Ltd. KPS Medical Biotechnology did not support our studies at all. KPS Medical Biotechnology provides molecular pathology services to detect predictive biomarkers in tumor samples for personalized targeted therapies. The company focuses on the diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and on lung cancer. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM PIB. Performed the experiments: ZAD GI GB. Analyzed the data: ZAD GI GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZAD GI GB. Wrote the paper: ZAD PIB TK. Final approval of the version to be published: PIB ZAD TK RM IP.