About the Authors

Christine M. Lovly

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine M. Lovly, Kimberly Brown Dahlman, Laurel E. Fohn, Zengliu Su

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Kimberly Brown Dahlman

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine M. Lovly, Kimberly Brown Dahlman, Laurel E. Fohn, Zengliu Su

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Laurel E. Fohn

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine M. Lovly, Kimberly Brown Dahlman, Laurel E. Fohn, Zengliu Su

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Zengliu Su

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine M. Lovly, Kimberly Brown Dahlman, Laurel E. Fohn, Zengliu Su

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Dora Dias-Santagata

Affiliation Translational Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Donna J. Hicks

Affiliation Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Donald Hucks

Affiliation Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Elizabeth Berry

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Charles Terry

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

MarKeesa Duke

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yingjun Su

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Tammy Sobolik-Delmaire

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Ann Richmond

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Department of Veterans Affairs, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Mark C. Kelley

Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Cindy L. Vnencak-Jones

Affiliation Departments of Pathology, Microbiology, Immunology and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

A. John Iafrate

Affiliation Translational Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey Sosman

These senior authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

William Pao

william.pao@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

WP: Consulting for Bristol-Myers Squibb; funding from AstraZeneca. DDS and AJI submitted a patent application for the SNaPshot genotyping methods described, which are the subject of licensing discussions. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CML KBD LEF ZS DDS DJH DH EB CT MD YS TSD AR MCK CLVJ AJI JS WP. Performed the experiments: CML KBD LEF ZS DJH DH EB CT MD YS TSD. Analyzed the data: CML KBD LEF ZS DDS DJH DH EB CT MD YS TSD AR MCK CLVJ AJI JS WP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CML KBD LEF ZS DDS DJH DH MD YS TSD AR MCK CLVJ AJI JS WP. Wrote the paper: CML KBD LEF JS WP.