About the Authors

Andrew H. Beck

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew H. Beck, Ziming Weng

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ziming Weng

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew H. Beck, Ziming Weng

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Daniela M. Witten

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Shirley Zhu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Joseph W. Foley

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Phil Lacroute

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Cheryl L. Smith

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Robert Tibshirani

Affiliations Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Matt van de Rijn

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Arend Sidow

arend@stanford.edu (AS); rbwest@stanford.edu (RBW)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America

Robert B. West

arend@stanford.edu (AS); rbwest@stanford.edu (RBW)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America, Pathology and Laboratory Service, Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AHB ZW MvdR AS RBW. Performed the experiments: ZW SZ CLS. Analyzed the data: AHB DMW JWF RT AS RBW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AHB ZW DMW SZ JWF PL CLS RT MvdR AS RBW. Wrote the paper: AHB ZW DMW RT MvdR AS RBW.