From the *Department of Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita City; †Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka City, Osaka, Japan; and ‡Phenomenome Discoveries, Inc, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Received for publication November 24, 2015; accepted April 19, 2016.
Address correspondence to: Ichiro Takemasa, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2, Yamadaoka, Suita City, Osaka 5650871, Japan (e-mail: [email protected]).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Hirofumi Akita and Shawn A. Ritchie equally contributed to this work.
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