Abir Salwa Ali:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9881-769X
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Malin Grönberg: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
SupervisionRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draft
Birgitte Federspiel: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Jean-Yves Scoazec: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Geir Olav Hjortland: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Henning Grønbæk: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Morten Ladekarl: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Seppo W. Langer: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Staffan Welin: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Lene Weber Vestermark: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Johanna Arola: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Pia Österlund: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Ulrich Knigge: Role: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Halfdan Sorbye: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: Writing
– review & editing
Lars Grimelius: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Eva Tiensuu Janson: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Andreas Krieg: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
7
November
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 11
Electronic Location Identifier: e0187667
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Endocrine Oncology, Uppsala University,
Uppsala, Sweden
[2
]
Department of Pathology, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen,
Denmark
[3
]
Department of Biopathology, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
[4
]
Department of Oncology, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway
[5
]
Department of Hepatology & Gastroenterology, Aarhus university Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
[6
]
Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
[7
]
Department of Oncology, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen,
Denmark
[8
]
Department of Oncology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
[9
]
Pathology, HUSLAB, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki,
Finland
[10
]
Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital and Helsinki University, Helsinki
Finland
[11
]
Department of Oncology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
[12
]
Department of Surgery C and Endocrinology PE, Rigshospitalet, Faculty of Health Science,
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
[13
]
Department of Oncology, Haukeland University Hospital and Department of Clinical Science,
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
[14
]
Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, GERMANY
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
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Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-25203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187667
PMC ID: 5675414
PubMed ID: 29112960
SO-VID: dfa1f988-8c59-4cd5-ab3a-9ac811b58fd6
Copyright © © 2017 Ali et al
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Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002794, Cancerfonden;
Award ID: CAN558/2014
Award Recipient
:
Eva Tiensuu Janson
Funded by: Lions Foundation for Cancer Research at the Uppsala University Hospital
Award Recipient
:
Eva Tiensuu Janson
Funded by: Selander foundation
Award Recipient
:
Eva Tiensuu Janson
Funded by: International Studies at the Faculty of Health Science at University of Copenhagen.
Award Recipient
:
Ulrich Knigge
This work was supported by the Lion's Cancer foundation (
www.lcff.se, ETJ), the Swedish Cancer Society (
www.cancerfonden.se, ETJ CAN558/2014), the Selanders foundation (ETJ) and the foundation for International
Studies at the Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen (UK). The funders
had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or
preparation of the manuscript.
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