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Volume 181, Issue 4 , Pages 1558-1564, April 2009

Tobias Klatte
- Department of Urology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Jonathan W. Said
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Michela de Martino
- Department of Urology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Jeffrey LaRochelle
- Department of Urology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Brian Shuch
- Department of Urology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Jian Yu Rao
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
George V. Thomas
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Fairooz F. Kabbinavar
- Department of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Arie S. Belldegrun
- Department of Urology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Allan J. Pantuck
- Department of Urology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
- Correspondence: Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Room B7-298 CHS, Box 951738, Los Angeles, California 90095-1738 (telephone: 310-206-2436; FAX: 310-206-4082)