About the Authors
- Kensuke Kojima
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kensuke Kojima, Craig April, Claudia Canasto-Chibuque, Jian-Bing Fan, Yujin Hoshida
Affiliation Liver Cancer Program, Tisch Cancer Institute, Division of Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- Craig April
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kensuke Kojima, Craig April, Claudia Canasto-Chibuque, Jian-Bing Fan, Yujin Hoshida
Affiliation Illumina, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Claudia Canasto-Chibuque
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kensuke Kojima, Craig April, Claudia Canasto-Chibuque, Jian-Bing Fan, Yujin Hoshida
Affiliation Liver Cancer Program, Tisch Cancer Institute, Division of Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- Xintong Chen
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Affiliation Liver Cancer Program, Tisch Cancer Institute, Division of Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- Manjeet Deshmukh
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Affiliation Liver Cancer Program, Tisch Cancer Institute, Division of Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- Anu Venkatesh
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Affiliation Liver Cancer Program, Tisch Cancer Institute, Division of Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- Poh Seng Tan
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Affiliation Liver Cancer Program, Tisch Cancer Institute, Division of Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- Masahiro Kobayashi
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Affiliation Department of Hepatology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
- Hiromitsu Kumada
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Affiliation Department of Hepatology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
- Jian-Bing Fan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kensuke Kojima, Craig April, Claudia Canasto-Chibuque, Jian-Bing Fan, Yujin Hoshida
Affiliation Illumina, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Yujin Hoshida
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kensuke Kojima, Craig April, Claudia Canasto-Chibuque, Jian-Bing Fan, Yujin Hoshida
* E-mail: yujin.hoshida@mssm.edu
Affiliation Liver Cancer Program, Tisch Cancer Institute, Division of Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
YH is a named investigator on a patent application entitled “Compositions, kits, and methods for detecting, characterizing, preventing, and treating hepatic disorders (USPTO application number: #20110263441)”. NanoString, Inc. has secured the option to an exclusive worldwide license. There is no other relevant declaration relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or modified products, etc. CA and JBF are employed by a commercial company, Illumina, Inc. There is no other relevant declaration relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products, etc. YH is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. These do not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CA JBF YH. Performed the experiments: CA CCC MD JBF YH. Analyzed the data: KK CA XC JBF YH AV PST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK HK. Wrote the paper: KK CA JBF YH.