Comparative transcriptome analysis of endemic and epidemic Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) lesions and the secondary role of HIV-1 in KS pathogenesis

• Salum J. Lidenge ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Salum J. Lidenge, Andrew V. Kossenkov

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nebraska Center for Virology and the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Ocean Road Cancer Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Andrew V. Kossenkov ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Salum J. Lidenge, Andrew V. Kossenkov

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• For Yue Tso,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nebraska Center for Virology and the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Jayamanna Wickramasinghe,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Sara R. Privatt,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nebraska Center for Virology and the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Owen Ngalamika,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Dermatology and Venereology section, University Teaching Hospitals, University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0648-4128

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• John R. Ngowi,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Ocean Road Cancer Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3583-1758

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• Julius Mwaiselage,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Ocean Road Cancer Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Paul M. Lieberman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3935-9921

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• John T. West,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nebraska Center for Virology and the Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4594-6855

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• Charles Wood

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cwood1@unl.edu

  Affiliations Nebraska Center for Virology and the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Nebraska Center for Virology and the Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4256-1530

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