Since N-Myc and c-Myc mutually suppress each other’s expression, and N-Myc and c-Myc mRNA expression is well known to inversely correlate with each other in human neuroblastoma tissues21, we used the higher value of N-Myc and c-Myc expression as the N-Myc/c-Myc expression value (two Myc as a group) for each of the 476 human neuroblastoma tissues. Here, MYC is linked to neuroblastoma.