Ahn, Keun Soo
O’Brien, Daniel
Kang, Yu Na
Mounajjed, Taofic
Kim, Yong Hoon
Kim, Tae-Seok
Kocher, Jean-Pierre A.
Allotey, Loretta K.
Borad, Mitesh J.
Roberts, Lewis R.
Kang, Koo Jeong http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1385-8308
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (2018R1C1B3004435, 2014R1A5A2010008)
Article History
Received: 6 March 2019
Accepted: 18 May 2019
First Online: 18 June 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: Keun Soo Ahn, Daniel O’Brien, Yu Na Kang, Taofic Mounajjed<sup>4</sup>, Yong Hoon Kim, Tae-Seok Kim, Jean-Pierre A. Kocher, Loretta K. Allotey, Mitesh J. Borad, Lewis R. Roberts, and Koo Jeong Kang declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: RNA sequencing data of this manuscript is registered at Gene Expression Omnibus (ExternalRef removed) with GEO accession number of GSE107943
: This study was approved by institutional review boards at both institutions (Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center: IRB No. 2014-12-066, Mayo clinic: IRB No. 16-007369) and included secondary use of human-derived materials.
: Informed consent for the human-derived materials was obtained from all patients before surgery.