About the Authors
- Zsolt Czimmerer
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary
- Julianna Hulvely
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Affiliation Astrid Research Ltd, Debrecen, Hungary
- Zoltan Simandi
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary
- Eva Varallyay
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Affiliation Plant Developmental Biology Group, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllő, Hungary
- Zoltan Havelda
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Affiliation Plant Developmental Biology Group, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllő, Hungary
- Erzsebet Szabo
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary
- Attila Varga
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Affiliation Astrid Research Ltd, Debrecen, Hungary
- Balazs Dezso
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Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary
- Maria Balogh
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Affiliation Center for Clinical Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary
- Attila Horvath
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Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary, Astrid Research Ltd, Debrecen, Hungary
- Balint Domokos
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Affiliation Astrid Research Ltd, Debrecen, Hungary
- Zsolt Torok
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Affiliations Astrid Research Ltd, Debrecen, Hungary, Department of Computer Graphics and Image Processing, University of Debrecen Centre of Arts, Humanities and Sciences, Debrecen, Hungary
- Laszlo Nagy
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Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary, MTA-DE “Lendulet” Immunogenomics Research Group, University of Debrecen, Medical and Health Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary
- Balint L. Balint
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* E-mail: lbalint@med.unideb.hu
Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary, Center for Clinical Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center, Debrecen, Hungary, UD-Genomed Ltd, Debrecen, Hungary
Competing Interests
At the time of preparing the manuscript, JH, AV and AH were employed by Astrid Research Ltd. ZT is an owner of Astrid Research Ltd. B. Domokos is currently employed by Astrid Research Ltd. BLB and LN are owners of UDGenomed Ltd. At the time of preparing the manuscript, BLB was a scientific consultant at Roche Hungary. Some of the reagents for these measurements were provided by Roche Hungary. Roche is now marketing an alternative miRNA measurement technology and has discontinued its collaboration in this field with the authors of the manuscript. None of these affiliations affect the authors’ adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BLB LN ZH ZC ZT. Performed the experiments: ZC JH EV ES B. Dezso ZS AH AV MB. Analyzed the data: ZC ZT EV ZH ES BLB B. Domokos. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LN ZH ZT. Wrote the paper: ZC BLB.