About the Authors

Jen-Tsan Chi

Contributed equally to this work with: Jen-Tsan Chi, Zhen Wang

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, The Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Zhen Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jen-Tsan Chi, Zhen Wang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Dimitry S. A Nuyten

Affiliation Diagnostic Radiation Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Edwin H Rodriguez

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Marci E Schaner

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Ali Salim

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Yun Wang

Affiliations Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Department of Genetics, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Gunnar B Kristensen

Affiliation Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Åslaug Helland

Affiliations Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Department of Genetics, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale

Affiliation Department of Genetics, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Amato Giaccia

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Michael T Longaker

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Trevor Hastie

Affiliation Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

George P Yang

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Palo Alto VA Health Care System, Palo Alto, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Marc J van de Vijver

Affiliation Diagnostic Radiation Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Patrick O Brown

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pbrown@pmgm2.stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

POB is Co-Founder of the Public Library of Science and is on its Board of Directors.

Author Contributions

JTC, ZW, and POB conceived and designed the experiments. JTC, ZW, EHR, MES, and AS performed the experiments. JTC, ZW, DSAN, MES, YW, GBK, AH, ALBD, AG, MTL, TH, GPY, MJvdV, and POB analyzed the data. JTC, ZW, EHR, and POB wrote the paper.