About the Authors
- Kazufumi Honda
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Affiliation Division of Chemotherapy and Clinical Research, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Takuji Okusaka
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Affiliation Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
- Klaus Felix
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Shoji Nakamori
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Osaka National Hospital, National Hospital Organization, Osaka, Japan
- Naohiro Sata
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Japan
- Hideo Nagai
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Japan
- Tatsuya Ioka
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Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan
- Akihiko Tsuchida
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Affiliation Third Department of Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- Takeshi Shimahara
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Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan
- Masashi Shimahara
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Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan
- Yohichi Yasunami
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Affiliation Department of Regenerative Medicine and Transplantation, Fukuoka University Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan
- Hideya Kuwabara
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Affiliation BioBusiness Group, Mitsui Knowledge Industry, Tokyo, Japan
- Tomohiro Sakuma
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Affiliation BioBusiness Group, Mitsui Knowledge Industry, Tokyo, Japan
- Yoshihiko Otsuka
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Affiliation Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis Project, Molecuence Corporation, Yokohama, Japan
- Norihito Ota
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Affiliation Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis Project, Molecuence Corporation, Yokohama, Japan
- Miki Shitashige
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Affiliation Division of Chemotherapy and Clinical Research, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Tomoo Kosuge
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Affiliation Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
- Markus W. Büchler
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Tesshi Yamada
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* E-mail: tyamada@ncc.go.jp
Affiliation Division of Chemotherapy and Clinical Research, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
HK and TS are the employees of Mitsui Knowledge Industry, and YO and NO used to belong to Molecuence Corporation. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KH TY. Performed the experiments: KH YO NO. Analyzed the data: KH HK T. Sakuma M. Shitashige. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TO KF SN NS HN TI AT T. Shimahara M. Shimahara YY TK MWB. Wrote the paper: KH TY.