About the Authors
- Andrea S. Bauer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea S. Bauer, Andreas Keller
Affiliation Division of Functional Genome Analysis, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
- Andreas Keller
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Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea S. Bauer, Andreas Keller
Affiliation Biomarker Discovery Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Eithne Costello
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Affiliation The National Institute for Health Research Pancreas Biomedical Research Unit and the Liverpool Experimental Cancer Medicine Center, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- William Greenhalf
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Affiliation The National Institute for Health Research Pancreas Biomedical Research Unit and the Liverpool Experimental Cancer Medicine Center, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Melanie Bier
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Affiliation Division of Functional Genome Analysis, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
- Anne Borries
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Affiliation Biomarker Discovery Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Markus Beier
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Affiliation Biomarker Discovery Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- John Neoptolemos
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Affiliation The National Institute for Health Research Pancreas Biomedical Research Unit and the Liverpool Experimental Cancer Medicine Center, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Markus Büchler
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Jens Werner
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Nathalia Giese
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Jörg D. Hoheisel
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* E-mail: j.hoheisel@dkfz.de
Affiliation Division of Functional Genome Analysis, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
Competing Interests
AB and M. Beier are employed by Febit Biotech, which has a commercial interest in microRNA diagnosis. AK was employed there as well but has moved to another company with no commercial interest. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors have no conflict of interest.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AK ASB JDH M. Beier. Performed the experiments: ASB AK EC WG M. Bier NG. Analyzed the data: AB ASB AK JN M. Bier M. Büchler JW NG JDH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EC WG JN M. Beier M. Büchler JW NG. Wrote the paper: ASB AK AB NG JDH.