Hinchcliff, Emily http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0593-6321
Paquette, Cherie
Roszik, Jason
Kelting, Sarah
Stoler, Mark H.
Mok, Samuel C.
Yeung, Tsz-Lun
Zhang, Qian
Yates, Melinda
Peng, Weiyi
Hwu, Patrick
Jazaeri, Amir
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Defense (W81XWH-17-1-0126, W81XWH-16-1-0038)
MD Anderson Cancer Center Support Grant (P30 CA016672)
National Institutes of Health T32 Training grant (CA101642)
Article History
Received: 12 March 2019
Accepted: 24 August 2019
First Online: 12 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards:
:
: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest.
: Independent validation cohorts were enrolled on tissue and clinical data collection protocol approved by MD Anderson Cancer Center institutional review board (IRB, protocol #: LAB06-0412). All tissue included in the tissue microarray was obtained under an IRB approved protocol at the University of Virginia (protocol #:14461).
: Because all information from the Cancer Genome Atlas is de-identified and publically available, informed consent by the study participants and approval of an ethics committee were unnecessary to perform this portion of the analyses in this study. All patients contributing tissue were enrolled under translational protocols as listed above and consent was obtained for the use of their specimens and data for research and for publication.