About the Authors

Sumit Arora

Affiliation Department of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sharanjot Saini

Affiliation Department of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shinichiro Fukuhara

Affiliation Department of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shahana Majid

Affiliation Department of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Varahram Shahryari

Affiliation Department of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Soichiro Yamamura

Affiliation Department of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Takeshi Chiyomaru

Affiliation Department of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Guoren Deng

Affiliation Department of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yuichiro Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Rajvir Dahiya

rdahiya@urology.ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA SS SM YT GD RD. Performed the experiments: SA SS SM VS SY TC YT GD SF. Analyzed the data: SA SS SM VS SY TC YT GD RD SF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA SS SM VS SY TC YT GD RD. Wrote the paper: SA SS RD.