Please note a change to the order of first author, Dr Enping Xu’s, affiliations in the following two articles:
Genome-wide methylation analysis shows similar patterns in Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma.
Carcinogenesis. 2013 Dec;34(12):2750-6. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgt286. Epub 2013 Aug 29.
Association of mitochondrial DNA copy number in peripheral blood leukocytes with risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma.
Carcinogenesis. 2013 Nov;34(11):2521-4. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgt230. Epub 2013 Jun 26.
Dr Xu was awarded a fellowship from Zhejiang University to pursue research at The University of Texas between 2011 and 2013. The above two articles were accepted for publication during that period and The University of Texas was listed as the author’s primary affiliation. However, Zhejiang University remained the author’s home institution and should have been listed as the author’s primary affiliation.
The articles were published with Dr. Xu’s affiliation reading:
1Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA, 2Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.
This should be read as:
1Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China, 2Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.