ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We gratefully thank Dr. Zhipei Zhang for the assistance in lung cancers sample collection. We thank Mang Zheng for technical assistance. We thank other members of Wu lab for stimulating dis- cussion and helpful suggestions. This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program (973 Program) (2010CB529603 and 2013CB917803) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 91132710). RK was supported by China Post- doctoral Science Foundation (20110490615). JYW is supported by NIH (Nos. RO1AG033004 and RO1CA175360). JYW designed the study; PW, XC and RK performed the experiments and analyzed the data; XL, YN and KW provided tissue samples and important suggestions; LZ, JL and JYW supervised the experiments and analyzed the data; PW and JYW wrote the paper.
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Acknowledgements This study was supported by the National Basic Research Program (973 Program) (Nos. 2012CB911201 and 2010CB945401), the National Natural Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 31371508, 91019020 and 81330055), the Introduced Innovative R and D Team of Guangdong Province (No. 201001Y0104687244), Zhujiang Program of Science and Technology Nova in Guangzhou (No. 2011 J2200082).
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