Small RNAs as biomarkers to differentiate benign and malign prostate diseases: An alternative for transrectal punch biopsy of the prostate?

• Lukas Markert ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas Markert, Jonas Holdmann

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lukas.markert@uni-wh.de

  Affiliation Division of Functional Genomics, Chair for Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1739-3619

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• Jonas Holdmann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lukas Markert, Jonas Holdmann

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Functional Genomics, Chair for Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

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• Claudia Klinger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Functional Genomics, Chair for Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany, Centre for Biomedical Education and Research (ZBAF), Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

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• Michael Kaufmann,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Division of Functional Genomics, Chair for Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany, Centre for Biomedical Education and Research (ZBAF), Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

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• Karin Schork,

  Roles Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medizinisches Proteom-Centre, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Centre for Protein Diagnostics (ProDi), Medical Proteome Analysis, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

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• Michael Turewicz,

  Roles Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medizinisches Proteom-Centre, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Centre for Protein Diagnostics (ProDi), Medical Proteome Analysis, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

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• Martin Eisenacher,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medizinisches Proteom-Centre, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Centre for Protein Diagnostics (ProDi), Medical Proteome Analysis, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

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• Andreas Savelsbergh

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Functional Genomics, Chair for Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany, Centre for Biomedical Education and Research (ZBAF), Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

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