Serum levels of circulating microRNA-107 are elevated in patients with early-stage HCC

• Sven H. Loosen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sven H. Loosen, Mirco Castoldi, Markus S. Jördens

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Mirco Castoldi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sven H. Loosen, Mirco Castoldi, Markus S. Jördens

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Markus S. Jördens ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sven H. Loosen, Mirco Castoldi, Markus S. Jördens

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0544-1118

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• Sanchary Roy,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Mihael Vucur,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Jennis Kandler,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Linda Hammerich,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Raphael Mohr,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Frank Tacke,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6206-0226

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• Tom F. Ulmer,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Ulf P. Neumann,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Tom Luedde ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tom.luedde@med.uni-duesseldorf.de (TL); christoph.roderburg@med.uni-duesseldorf.de (CR)

  ¶‡ These authors share senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Christoph Roderburg

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tom.luedde@med.uni-duesseldorf.de (TL); christoph.roderburg@med.uni-duesseldorf.de (CR)

  ¶‡ These authors share senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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