Identification of a novel non-invasive biological marker to overcome the shortcomings of PSA in diagnosis and risk stratification for prostate cancer: Initial prospective study of developmental endothelial locus-1 protein

• Jae-Wook Chung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jae-Wook Chung, Hyun Tae Kim

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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• Hyun Tae Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jae-Wook Chung, Hyun Tae Kim

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

  Affiliation Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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• Yun-Sok Ha,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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• Eun Hye Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Biomedical Research Institute, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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• So Young Chun,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Biomedical Research Institute, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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• Chan-Hyeong Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Cell and Matrix Research Institute, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

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• Kyeong Hyeon Byeon,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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• Seock Hwan Choi,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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• Jun Nyung Lee,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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• Bum Soo Kim,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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• Tae-Hwan Kim,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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• Eun Sang Yoo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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• Ghil Suk Yoon,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

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• Moon-Chang Baek ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mcbaek@knu.ac.kr (MCB); tgkwon@knu.ac.kr (TGK)

  ¶‡ MCB and TGK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Cell and Matrix Research Institute, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

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• Tae Gyun Kwon

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mcbaek@knu.ac.kr (MCB); tgkwon@knu.ac.kr (TGK)

  ¶‡ MCB and TGK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea, Joint Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4390-0952

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