About the Authors

Hua Wei

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

Ashish Kamat

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

Meng Chen

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

Hung-Lung Ke

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

David W. Chang

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

Jikai Yin

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

H. Barton Grossman

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

Colin P. Dinney

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

Xifeng Wu

xwu@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, 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: HW CPD XW. Performed the experiments: HW HK JY. Analyzed the data: HW MC DWC XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK HBG CPD XW. Wrote the paper: HW XW.