About the Authors

Ping Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Yuan, Humam Kadara

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Humam Kadara

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Yuan, Humam Kadara

Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Carmen Behrens

Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ximing Tang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Denise Woods

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Luisa M. Solis

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jiaoti Huang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, The University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Monica Spinola

Affiliation The Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Wenli Dong

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Guosheng Yin

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Junya Fujimoto

Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Edward Kim

Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yang Xie

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Luc Girard

Affiliation The Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Cesar Moran

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Waun Ki Hong

Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John D. Minna

Affiliations The Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Ignacio I. Wistuba

iiwistuba@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PY HK JDM IIW. Performed the experiments: PY HK CB XT DW LMS MS JF. Analyzed the data: PY HK CB XT DW LMS JH MS WD GY EK YX LG CM JDM IIW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH EK LG CM WKH JDM IIW. Wrote the paper: PY HK CB XT WD WKH JDM IIW.