Data availability: Accession codes: All the data generated and described in this article have been submitted to the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/). The NGS data were submitted under accession number GSE62010 (URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ query/acc.cgi?acc= GSE62017), The microarray data were submitted under accession number GSE62011 (URL: http://ww...

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