Title: Cell proliferation, cell cycle abnormalities, and cancer outcome in patients with Barrett’s esophagus: A long-term prospective study Authors:

Authors: Dennis L. Chao1,2,*,† , Carissa A. Sanchez1,2,*, Patricia C. Galipeau1,2, Patricia L. Blount1,2,3, Thomas G. Paulson1,2, David S. Cowan1,2, Kamran Ayub6,7,8, Robert D. Odze9, Peter S. Rabinovitch2, 4, and Brian J. Reid1, 2, 3, 5 1Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 2Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 3Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 4Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 5Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 6Provena St. Joseph Medical Center, Joliet, Illinois 7Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital, Bolingbrook, Illinois 8Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, Illinois 9Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts *These authors contributed equally to this work.