About the Authors
- Kazuo Konishi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kazuo Konishi, Yoshiyuki Watanabe
* E-mail: konishimd@med.showa-u.ac.jp
Affiliations Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Yoshiyuki Watanabe
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kazuo Konishi, Yoshiyuki Watanabe
Affiliations Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan
- Lanlan Shen
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Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Yi Guo
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Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Ryan J. Castoro
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Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Kimie Kondo
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Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Woonbok Chung
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Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Saira Ahmed
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Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Jaroslav Jelinek
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Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Yanis A. Boumber
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Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Marcos R. Estecio
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Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Shinji Maegawa
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Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Yutaka Kondo
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Affiliation Division of Molecular Oncology, Aichi Cancer Center, Nagoya, Japan
- Fumio Itoh
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan
- Michio Imawari
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Stanley R. Hamilton
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Jean-Pierre J. Issa
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Affiliation Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: K.Konishi YW J-PI. Performed the experiments: K.Konishi YW LS YG RC K.Kondo WC SA JJ YB ME SM YK FI MI SH. Analyzed the data: K.Konishi YW J-PI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: K.Konishi YW LS SA JJ SH J-PI. Wrote the paper: K.Konishi J-PI.