Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma with low mitochondrial copy number has mesenchymal and stem-like characteristics, and contributes to poor prognosis

• Yasunori Masuike,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2793-3129

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• Koji Tanaka ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ktanaka@gesurg.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Tomoki Makino,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Makoto Yamasaki,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Yasuhiro Miyazaki,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Tsuyoshi Takahashi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Yukinori Kurokawa,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Kiyokazu Nakajima,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Masaki Mori,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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• Yuichiro Doki

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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