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Article History

Received: 26 October 2021

Accepted: 11 January 2022

First Online: 3 February 2022

Declarations

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: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and have been approved by the Auburn University Institutional Review Board of the Office of Research Compliance (protocol #19-302 EP 1907). Furthermore, a request (#44682–1) for a Data Use Certification for TCGA data access was submitted and project (#10805) was approved. TCGA study participants provided informed consent through NIH-approved protocols.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.