A novel combination of serum microRNAs for the detection of early gastric cancer.

"data sets analyzed in the study were submitted to the national center for biotechnology information gene expression omnibus database under accession number gse164174."

"Conflict of interest Satoko Takizawa is an employee of Toray Industries, Inc., the provider of the 3D-Gene® system. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare."

"The study was supported by a “Development of Diagnostic Technology for Detection of miRNA in Body Fluids” grant from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (to T.O.). The National Cancer Center Biobank is supported by the NCC Research and Development Fund (29-A-1). We thank Tomomi Fukuda, Takumi Sonoda, Hiroko Tadokoro, Megumi Miyagi, Tatsuya Suzuki, Jumpei Kawauchi, Makiko Ichikawa, and Kamakura Techno-Science Inc. for assistance with the microarray assays; Noriko Abe for management of the serum samples; Michiko Ohori for the management of personal information; and Yoshiaki Aoki and Hitoshi Fujimiya (Dynacom Co. Ltd) for developing in- house analytical tools."