About the Authors

Tor A. Klingen

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, Department of Clinical Medicine, Section for Pathology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Pathology, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway

Ying Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Chen, Hans Aas

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, Department of Clinical Medicine, Section for Pathology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Pathology, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway, Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Hans Aas

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Chen, Hans Aas

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway

Elisabeth Wik

Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation

lars.akslen@uib.no (LAA); Elisabeth.wik@uib.no (EW)

Affiliations Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, Department of Clinical Medicine, Section for Pathology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Pathology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Lars A. Akslen

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lars.akslen@uib.no (LAA); Elisabeth.wik@uib.no (EW)

Affiliations Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, Department of Clinical Medicine, Section for Pathology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Pathology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.