*Department of Surgery, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
†Department of Surgery, The Pancreas Institute, University and Hospital Trust of Verona, Verona, Italy
‡Departments of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
§Department of Pathology and Diagnostics, University and Hospital Trust of Verona, Verona, Italy
¶Departments of Oncology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
||Departments of Medicine, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
**ARC-Net applied research on cancer center, University and Hospital Trust of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Reprints: Christopher L. Wolfgang, MD, PhD, Blalock 240, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287. E-mail: [email protected].
The correspondence should be addressed to C.L.W. and L.D.W.
Funding was received from NIH grants P50CA62924, R01CA176828, 3P30CA006973; Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Research Acceleration Network grant; Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center; Buffone Family Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Fund; Kaya Tuncer Career Development Award in Gastrointestinal Cancer Prevention; AGA-Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation Research Scholar Award in Pancreatic Cancer; Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research Kimmel Scholar Award; Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation; The Gerald O Mann Charitable Foundation (Harriet and Allan Wulfstat, Trustees); Sigma Beta Sorority; Tampa Bay Fisheries Inc; Susan Wojcicki and Dennis Troper; Fondazione Italiana Malattie Pancreas (FIMP- Ministero Salute, CUP_J33G13000210001); Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (Grant no. 12182); Italian Cancer Genome Project (FIRB RBAP10AHJB); European Community 7 Framework Programme Cam-Pac (Grant no. 602783).
L.D.W. is a paid consultant for Personal Genome Diagnostics.
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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A.P., J.Y., and N.R. contributed equally to this study.
