About the Authors
- Ji-Young Shin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Young Shin, Young-Il Kim
Affiliations Center for Gastric Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea, Department of life Science and Biotechnology, Paichai University, Daejeon, Korea
- Young-Il Kim
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Young Shin, Young-Il Kim
Affiliation Center for Gastric Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea
- Soo-Jeong Cho
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* E-mail: crystal522@daum.net
Affiliation Center for Gastric Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea
- Mi Kyung Lee
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Affiliation Center for Gastric Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea
- Myeong-Cherl Kook
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Affiliation Center for Gastric Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea
- Jun Ho Lee
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Affiliation Center for Gastric Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea
- Sang Soo Lee
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Affiliation Department of life Science and Biotechnology, Paichai University, Daejeon, Korea
- Hassan Ashktorab
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Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Duane T. Smoot
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Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Keun Won Ryu
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Affiliation Center for Gastric Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea
- Young-Woo Kim
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Affiliation Center for Gastric Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea
- Il Ju Choi
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Affiliation Center for Gastric Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea
Competing Interests
HA is a PLOS ONE editorial board member and this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JYS YIK SJC. Performed the experiments: JYS YIK MKL SJC. Analyzed the data: SJC JYS YIK MKL MCK JHL SSL HA DTS KWR YWK IJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCK JHL SSL HA DTS KWR YWK IJC. Wrote the paper: JYS YIK SJC.