About the Authors

Ken Kron

Contributed equally to this work with: Ken Kron, Vaijayanti Pethe

Affiliations Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vaijayanti Pethe

Contributed equally to this work with: Ken Kron, Vaijayanti Pethe

Affiliation Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Laurent Briollais

Affiliation Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bekim Sadikovic

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hilmi Ozcelik

Affiliation Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alia Sunderji

Affiliations Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vasundara Venkateswaran

Affiliation Division of Urology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jehonathan Pinthus

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Neil Fleshner

Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Theodorus van der Kwast

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bharati Bapat

BAPAT@lunenfeld.ca

Affiliations Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK VP TvdK BB. Performed the experiments: KK VP TvdK. Analyzed the data: KK VP LB BS AS BB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK VP BB. Wrote the paper: KK VP LB BS HO VV JP NEF TvdK BB.