Acknowledgements
We thank Drs. Lars Klareskog and Leonid Padyukov, the EIRA group, Richard Rosenquist, Göran Roos, and Gunilla Enblad for help in collecting tumor samples as well as normal controls. We also thank Dr. Thomas Axelsson for the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) performed at the SNP technology platform at Uppsala University, Sweden (www.genotyping.se).
Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest