Hertzer, Kathleen M. MD, PhD*; Xu, Mu MD, PhD*; Moro, Aune MSc*; Dawson, David W. MD, PhD†; Du, Lin MS‡; Li, Gang PhD‡; Chang, Hui-Hua PhD*; Stark, Alexander P. MD*; Jung, Xiaoman MD*; Hines, Oscar Joe MD*; Eibl, Guido MD*
From the Departments of *Surgery and †Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and ‡Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Received for publication January 13, 2015; accepted June 11, 2015.
Reprints: Guido Eibl, MD, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Ave, 72-236 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095 (e-mail: [email protected]).
This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (P01CA163200, DK41301, UL1TR000124, and T32 Gastroenterology Training Grant DK07180-40) and the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.