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The author’s research is supported by grants from the TÜBİTAK (109S191 and 111T558) with additional support from the Ministry of Development and Turkish Academy of Sciences.

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    Mehmet Ozturk, Tugce Batur, Umut Ekin, Aybike Erdogan, Evin İscan, Umur Keles, Ozden Oz & Cigdem Ozen

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Ozturk, M., Batur, T., Ekin, U. et al. Molecular Pathogenesis of Liver Cancer. J Gastrointest Canc 48, 222–224 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12029-017-9957-2

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