Zhang, Xi
Lu, Hongbing
Tian, Qiang
Feng, Na
Yin, Lulu
Xu, Xiaopan
Du, Peng
Liu, Yang
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81701658, 81801655, 81871424)
Military Science Foundation of China (BWS14J038)
National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC0107403)
Article History
Received: 1 August 2018
Revised: 6 January 2019
Accepted: 4 February 2019
First Online: 7 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Hongbing Lu.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors, Xiaopan Xu, has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was not required for this study because all the patient data in TCGA was deidentified.
: Institutional Review Board approval was not required because all the data used in this study were selected from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCIA). After ethical review by NIH, the TCIA is freely available for the scientific research. Followed by the instructions of TCIA, we have referred related articles about TCIA.
: Some study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported in AJNR (Am J Neuroradiol. 2017. ).
: • retrospective• diagnostic or prognostic study• multicenter study