Intratumoral heterogeneity of programmed cell death ligand-1 expression is common in lung cancer

• Sayuri Nakamura,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Kentaro Hayashi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Current address: Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Yuki Imaoka,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Yuka Kitamura,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Yuko Akazawa,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Kazuhiro Tabata,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Ruben Groen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Tomoshi Tsuchiya,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Naoya Yamasaki,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Takeshi Nagayasu,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Junya Fukuoka

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fukuokaj@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

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