Acknowledgments
The authors thank the GESR of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (Washington DC, USA) for performing the array-CGH slides washes and scanning, and the Center for Advanced Technologies in Fluorescence (CTAF) at the Federal University of Paraná (Curitiba, PR, Brazil) for performing FISH confocal microscopy imaging. We also acknowledge CAPES for Dr. Bruno C. Feltes postdoctoral fellowship and Ms. Akanksha Mahajan (MSc) for the technical support with array-CGH and FISH analyses.
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The present study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee (HPP/PR - CEP0518-07/2007; amendment 2014) of the Pequeno Príncipe Hospital (Curitiba, PR, Brazil). The analysis of the human samples used in the present study was performed following the international and national regulations in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.