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"data availability whole transcriptome and methylome data were deposited in the european genome-phenome archive (ega) under accession numbers egas00001005975 egas00001005976 ( https://ega-archive org/studies/ ). supplementary tables of our recent study have been deposited at zenodo ( https://doi org/ 10 5281/zenodo 10006881).; s characteristics (supplementary table 1) have been deposited at zenodo ( https://zenodo org/record/7013097 and https://doi org/ 10 5281/zenodo 7249214). data availability whole transcriptome and methylome data were deposited in the european genome-phenome archive (ega) under accession numbers egas00001005975"

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"Funding Open access funding provided by University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. JR is an alumnus of the BIH-Charité Clinical Scientist Program funded by the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health. We thank the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner site Berlin for technical support. AV received funding by the ÖAW (DOC Fellowship: DOC/26523)."