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  1. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 Knockout Screening was applied to investigate novel targets in imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). 20 genes and 2 miRNAs have been selected by total reads of sgRN...

    Authors: Jie Cao, Jianchang Wei, Ping Yang, Tong Zhang, Zhuanpeng Chen, Feng He, Fang Wei, Huacui Chen, He Hu, Junbin Zhong, Zhi Yang, Wensong Cai, Wanglin Li and Qiang Wang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:121

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  2. Content type: Review

    Hypoxia is a major regulator of angiogenesis and always influences the release of exosomes in various types of tumors. The present review aimed to assess the role of hypoxia-induced exosomes in the tumor biology.

    Authors: Chuchu Shao, Fengming Yang, Suyu Miao, Weitao Liu, Chaoshan Wang, Yongqian Shu and Hua Shen

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:120

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  4. Content type: Research

    Ovarian cancer (OvCa) is one of the most common malignant diseases of the female reproductive system in the world. The majority of OvCa is diagnosed with metastasis in the abdominal cavity. Epithelial-to-mesen...

    Authors: Haihai Liang, Tong Yu, Yue Han, Hua Jiang, Chengyu Wang, Tianyi You, Xiaoguang Zhao, Huitong Shan, Rui Yang, Lida Yang, Hongli Shan and Yunyan Gu

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:119

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  5. Content type: Review

    In recent years, thyroid malignances have become more prevalent, especially among women. The most common sporadic types of thyroid tumors of follicular origin include papillary, follicular and anaplastic thyro...

    Authors: Natalia Pstrąg, Katarzyna Ziemnicka, Hans Bluyssen and Joanna Wesoły

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:116

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  6. Content type: Research

    Deregulation of microtubules and centrosome integrity is response for the initiation and progression of human cancers. Sperm-associated antigen 5 (SPAG5) is essential for the spindle apparatus organization and...

    Authors: Yu-Feng Yang, Mei-Fang Zhang, Qiu-Hong Tian, Jia Fu, Xia Yang, Chris Zhiyi Zhang and Hong Yang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:117

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  7. Content type: Review

    The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is involved in multiple aspects of cellular processes, such as cell cycle progression, cellular differentiation, and survival (Davis RJ et al., Cancer Cell 26:455-64, 2014...

    Authors: Chien-Hung Yeh, Marcia Bellon and Christophe Nicot

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:115

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  8. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    Exosome production from cancer-associated fibroblasts seems to be an important driver of tumor progression. We report the first in-depth biotype characterization of ncRNAs, analyzed by Next Generation Sequenci...

    Authors: Mercedes Herrera, Carlos Llorens, Marta Rodríguez, Alberto Herrera, Ricardo Ramos, Beatriz Gil, Antonio Candia, María Jesús Larriba, Pilar Garre, Julie Earl, Mercedes Rodríguez-Garrote, Trinidad Caldés, Félix Bonilla, Alfredo Carrato, Vanesa García-Barberán and Cristina Peña

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:114

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  10. Content type: Research

    Chemotherapeutic agents that modulate cell cycle checkpoints and/or tumor-specific pathways have shown immense promise in preclinical and clinical studies aimed at anti-cancer therapy. MASTL (Greatwall in Xeno...

    Authors: Srijayaprakash Babu Uppada, Saiprasad Gowrikumar, Rizwan Ahmad, Balawant Kumar, Bryan Szeglin, Xi Chen, J. Joshua Smith, Surinder K. Batra, Amar B. Singh and Punita Dhawan

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:111

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  11. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    The aim of this study was to uncover the pathogenic relevance and the underlying molecular mechanism of a novel CDH1 variant found in a Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer family (p.L13_L15del), which affects the s...

    Authors: Joana Figueiredo, Soraia Melo, Kimberley Gamet, Tanis Godwin, Susana Seixas, João M. Sanches, Parry Guilford and Raquel Seruca

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:112

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  12. Content type: Research

    Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) function as key molecules in cancer progression. The lncRNA CYTOR plays oncogenic roles in multiple types of cancer, yet the detailed molecular mechanisms of those roles remain u...

    Authors: Xue Wang, Hongfei Yu, Wenjie Sun, Jianlu Kong, Lei Zhang, Jinlong Tang, Jingyu Wang, Enping Xu, Maode Lai and Honghe Zhang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:110

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  13. Content type: Review

    Malignant ovarian tumors bear the highest mortality rate among all gynecological cancers. Both late tumor diagnosis and tolerance to available chemical therapy increase patient mortality. Therefore, it is both...

    Authors: Qilian Yang, Yuqing Yang, Nianxin Zhou, Kexin Tang, Wayne Bond Lau, Bonnie Lau, Wei Wang, Lian Xu, Zhengnan Yang, Shuang Huang, Xin Wang, Tao Yi, Xia Zhao, Yuquan Wei, Hongjing Wang, Linjie Zhao…

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:109

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  14. Content type: Research

    Gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma. The identification of the molecular mechanisms regulating GIST progression is vital for its treatment and prevention. Increasing r...

    Authors: Fuqing Hu, Haijie Li, Lu Liu, Feng Xu, Senyan Lai, Xuelai Luo, Junbo Hu and Xi Yang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:107

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  15. Content type: Review

    Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease with high mortality due to difficulties in its early diagnosis and metastasis. The tumor microenvironment induced by interactions between pancreatic epithelial/cancer cell...

    Authors: Bo Ren, Ming Cui, Gang Yang, Huanyu Wang, Mengyu Feng, Lei You and Yupei Zhao

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:108

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  17. Content type: Research

    A better understanding of the molecular mechanism involving lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA network underlying glioma genesis is beneficial to the treatment of glioma. This study was designed to investigate the role of lncR...

    Authors: Ke Zhou, Chi Zhang, Hui Yao, Xuewen Zhang, Youxin Zhou, Yanjun Che and Yulun Huang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:105

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  18. Content type: Review

    FOXO3a is a member of the FOXO subfamily of forkhead transcription factors that mediate a variety of cellular processes including apoptosis, proliferation, cell cycle progression, DNA damage and tumorigenesis....

    Authors: Ying Liu, Xiang Ao, Wei Ding, Murugavel Ponnusamy, Wei Wu, Xiaodan Hao, Wanpeng Yu, Yifei Wang, Peifeng Li and Jianxun Wang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:104

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  19. Content type: Review

    Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are functional RNAs longer than 200 nucleotides. Recent advances in the non-protein coding part of human genome analysis have discovered extensive transcription of large RNA tran...

    Authors: Tao Xu, Chang-ming Lin, Shu-qi Cheng, Jie Min, Li Li, Xiao-ming Meng, Cheng Huang, Lei Zhang, Zi-yu Deng and Jun Li

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:103

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  20. Content type: Research

    Patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) have a high incidence of regional and distant metastases. Although metastasis is the main cause of CRC-related death, its molecular mechanisms remain largely unknown.

    Authors: Yi Pan, Joanna Hung Man Tong, Raymond Wai Ming Lung, Wei Kang, Johnny Sheung Him Kwan, Wing Po Chak, Ka Yee Tin, Lau Ying Chung, Feng Wu, Simon Siu Man Ng, Tony Wing Chung Mak, Jun Yu, Kwok Wai Lo, Anthony Wing Hung Chan and Ka Fai To

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:102

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  22. Content type: Research

    The disruption of normal gene regulation due to microRNA dysfunction is a common event in cancer pathogenesis. MicroRNA-27b is an example of an oncogenic miRNA, and it is frequently upregulated in breast cance...

    Authors: Steven C. Eastlack, Shengli Dong, Cristina Ivan and Suresh K. Alahari

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:100

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  23. Content type: Research

    Exosomes are extracellular vesicles released by almost all cell types, including cancer cells, into bodily fluids such as saliva, plasma, breast milk, semen, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, amniotic fluid, synovia...

    Authors: Fatima Qadir, Mohammad Arshad Aziz, Chrisdina Puspita Sari, Hong Ma, Haiyan Dai, Xun Wang, Dhiresh Raithatha, Lucas Girotto Lagreca Da Silva, Muhammad Hussain, Seyedeh P. Poorkasreiy, Iain L. Hutchison, Ahmad Waseem and Muy-Teck Teh

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:97

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  25. Content type: Research

    Defective autophagy is thought to contribute to the pathogenesis of many diseases, including cancer. Human plasmacytoma variant translocation 1 (PVT1) is an oncogenic long non-coding RNA that has been identifi...

    Authors: Fengting Huang, Wenying Chen, Juanfei Peng, Yuanhua Li, Yanyan Zhuang, Zhe Zhu, Chunkui Shao, Wanling Yang, Herui Yao and Shineng Zhang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:98

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  26. Content type: Research

    A deeper mechanistic understanding of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) regulation is needed to improve current anti-metastasis strategies in ovarian cancer (OvCa). This study was designed to investig...

    Authors: Haihai Liang, Xiaoguang Zhao, Chengyu Wang, Jian Sun, Yingzhun Chen, Guoyuan Wang, Lei Fang, Rui Yang, Mengxue Yu, Yunyan Gu and Hongli Shan

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:96

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  28. Content type: Research

    Long noncoding RNA HULC is highly up-regulation in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the functions of HULC in hepatocarcinogenesis remains unclear.

    Authors: Xiaoru Xin, Mengying Wu, Qiuyu Meng, Chen Wang, Yanan Lu, Yuxin Yang, Xiaonan Li, Qidi Zheng, Hu Pu, Xin Gui, Tianming Li, Jiao Li, Song Jia and Dongdong Lu

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:94

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  29. Content type: Research

    Dysfunctions of long non-coding RNA (lncRNAs) have been associated with the initiation and progression of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the clinicopathologic significance and potential role of lncRNA PTT...

    Authors: Jin-lan Huang, Shun-wang Cao, Qi-shui Ou, Bin Yang, Shi-hao Zheng, Jing Tang, Jing Chen, Yan-wei Hu, Lei Zheng and Qian Wang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:93

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  30. Content type: Research

    Mounting evidence indicates that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) could play a pivotal role in cancer biology. However, the role and molecular mechanism and global genes that were mediated by lncRNA AFAP1-AS1 in ...

    Authors: Dandan Yin, Xiyi Lu, Jun Su, Xuezhi He, Wei De, Jinsong Yang, Wei Li, Liang Han and Erbao Zhang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:92

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  32. Content type: Research

    Abnormal metabolism, including abnormal lipid metabolism, is a hallmark of cancer cells. Some studies have demonstrated that the lipogenic pathway might promote the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC...

    Authors: Xirui Liu, Yingjian Liang, Ruipeng Song, Guangchao Yang, Jihua Han, Yaliang Lan, Shangha Pan, Mingxi Zhu, Yao Liu, Yan Wang, Fanzheng Meng, Yifeng Cui, Jiabei Wang, Bo Zhang, Xuan Song, Zhaoyang Lu…

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:90

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  33. Content type: Research

    Accumulating evidences indicate that non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) including long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) acting as crucial regulators in osteosarcoma (OS). Previously, we reported that Rho...

    Authors: Yong Wang, Xiandong Zeng, Ningning Wang, Wei Zhao, Xi Zhang, Songling Teng, Yueyan Zhang and Zhi Lu

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:89

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  35. Content type: Research

    Emerging evidence has shown that dysregulation function of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) implicated in gastric cancer (GC). However, the role of the differentially expressed lncRNAs in GC has not fully explai...

    Authors: Gang Zhang, Shuwei Li, Jiafei Lu, Yuqiu Ge, Qiaoyan Wang, Gaoxiang Ma, Qinghong Zhao, Dongdong Wu, Weida Gong, Mulong Du, Haiyan Chu, Meilin Wang, Aihua Zhang and Zhengdong Zhang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:87

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  36. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    Abnormal expression of non-coding circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been reported in many types of tumors. circRNA have been suggested to be an ideal candidate biomarker for diagnostic and therapeutic implications...

    Authors: Cheng Lu, Xi Shi, Amanda Y. Wang, Yuan Tao, Zhenxiao Wang, Chaoping Huang, Yuehua Qiao, Hongyi Hu and Liangfa Liu

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:86

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  37. Content type: Research

    Since tumor growth requires reactivation of telomerase (hTERT), this enzyme is a challenging target for drug development. Therefore, it is of great interest to identify telomerase expression and activity regul...

    Authors: Joëlle El Hajj, Eric Nguyen, Qingyuan Liu, Claire Bouyer, Eric Adriaenssens, George Hilal and Evelyne Ségal-Bendirdjian

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:85

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  38. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    Conventional tumor markers for non-invasive diagnosis of gastric cancer (GC) exhibit insufficient sensitivity and specificity to facilitate detection of early gastric cancer (EGC). We aimed to identify EGC-spe...

    Authors: Ling-Yun Lin, Li Yang, Qiang Zeng, Lin Wang, Mao-Li Chen, Ze-Hang Zhao, Guo-Dong Ye, Qi-Cong Luo, Pei-Yu Lv, Qi-Wei Guo, Bo-An Li, Jian-Chun Cai and Wang-Yu Cai

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:84

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  39. Content type: Research

    Estrogen plays a critical role in breast cancer (BC) progression through estrogen receptor (ER)-mediated gene regulation. Emerging studies suggest that the malignant progress of BC cells is influenced by the c...

    Authors: Cheng-Fei Jiang, Zhu-Mei Shi, Dong-Mei Li, Ying-Chen Qian, Yi Ren, Xiao-Ming Bai, Yun-Xia Xie, Lin Wang, Xin Ge, Wei-Tao Liu, Lin-Lin Zhen, Ling-Zhi Liu and Bing-Hua Jiang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:83

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  40. Content type: Review

    Exosomes are extracellular vesicles released by many cell types and have been attributed for their roles in many diseases including cancer. Exosomes secreted by tumor cells and stromal cells are critical media...

    Authors: Zhenqiang Sun, Shuaixi Yang, Quanbo Zhou, Guixian Wang, Junmin Song, Zhen Li, Zhiyong Zhang, Jizhong Xu, Kunkun Xia, Yuan Chang, Jinbo Liu and Weitang Yuan

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:82

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  42. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    Mutations in polymerase ε (POLE) confer favorable prognosis and outcomes in various cancer types, but their role in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is unknown. Utilizing the data of 513 patients with adenocarc...

    Authors: Liang Liu, Jimmy Ruiz, Stacey S. O’Neill, Stefan C. Grant, W. Jeffrey Petty, Meng Yang, Kexin Chen, Umit Topaloglu, Boris Pasche and Wei Zhang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:81

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  43. Content type: Review

    Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are connected at the 3′ and 5′ ends by exon or intron cyclization, forming a complete ring structure. circRNA is more stable and conservative than linear RNA and abounds in various org...

    Authors: Yaxian Zhong, Yajun Du, Xue Yang, Yongzhen Mo, Chunmei Fan, Fang Xiong, Daixi Ren, Xin Ye, Chunwei Li, Yumin Wang, Fang Wei, Can Guo, Xu Wu, Xiaoling Li, Yong Li, Guiyuan Li…

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:79

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  44. Content type: Research

    SALL1 is a multi-zinc finger transcription factor that regulates organogenesis and stem cell development, but the role of SALL1 in tumor biology and tumorigenesis remains largely unknown.

    Authors: Chunling Ma, Fang Wang, Bing Han, Xiaoli Zhong, Fusheng Si, Jian Ye, Eddy C. Hsueh, Lynn Robbins, Susan M. Kiefer, Yanping Zhang, Pamela Hunborg, Mark A. Varvares, Michael Rauchman and Guangyong Peng

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:78

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  45. Content type: Review

    Some of the key steps in cancer metastasis are the migration and invasion of tumor cells; these processes require rearrangement of the cytoskeleton. Actin filaments, microtubules, and intermediate filaments in...

    Authors: Yanyan Tang, Yi He, Ping Zhang, Jinpeng Wang, Chunmei Fan, Liting Yang, Fang Xiong, Shanshan Zhang, Zhaojian Gong, Shaolin Nie, Qianjin Liao, Xiayu Li, Xiaoling Li, Yong Li, Guiyuan Li, Zhaoyang Zeng…

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:77

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  46. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    DNA damage-specific histone chaperone Aprataxin PNK-like factor (APLF) regulates mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (MET) during cellular reprogramming. We investigated the role of APLF in epithelial-to-mese...

    Authors: Aditi Majumder, Khaja Moheiddin Syed, Ananda Mukherjee, Manendra Babu Lankadasari, Juberiya Mohammed Azeez, Sreeharshan Sreeja, Kuzhuvelil B. Harikumar, Madhavan Radhakrishna Pillai and Debasree Dutta

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:76

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  47. Content type: Review

    Exosomes have emerged as a novel approach for the treatment and diagnosis of cancer after RNA content was discovered in exosomes in 2007. As important meditators of intercellular communication, exosomes have b...

    Authors: Ruihao Zhou, Kaddie Kwok Chen, Jingtao Zhang, Bufan Xiao, Zhaohao Huang, Cheng Ju, Jun Sun, Feifei Zhang, Xiao-Bin Lv and Guofu Huang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:75

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  48. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant adult primary brain tumor. Despite surgical resection followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the median survival rate is approximat...

    Authors: Sze Kiat Tan, Chiara Pastori, Clara Penas, Ricardo J. Komotar, Michael E. Ivan, Claes Wahlestedt and Nagi G. Ayad

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:74

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  49. Content type: Research

    Liver tumor initiating cells (TICs) have self-renewal and differentiation properties, accounting for tumor initiation, metastasis and drug resistance. Long noncoding RNAs are involved in many physiological and...

    Authors: Xiaomin Fu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Fujun Qin, Yong Zhang, Jizhen Lin, Yuechao Ding, Zihe Yang, Yiman Shang, Li Wang, Qinxian Zhang and Quanli Gao

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:73

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  50. Content type: Research

    Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers and causes of cancer-related death worldwide. In patients with CRC, metastasis is a crucial problem that leads to treatment failure and is the primary ...

    Authors: Kuo-Wang Tsai, Yi-Hao Lo, Hsuan Liu, Chung-Yu Yeh, You-Zuo Chen, Chao-Wen Hsu, Wei-Shone Chen and Jui-Ho Wang

    Citation: Molecular Cancer 2018 17:72

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