About the Authors

Katy Milne

Affiliation Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Rebecca O. Barnes

Affiliation Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Adam Girardin

Affiliations Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Melanie A. Mawer

Affiliation Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Nancy J. Nesslinger

Affiliation Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Alvin Ng

Affiliation Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Julie S. Nielsen

Affiliation Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Robert Sahota

Affiliation Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Eric Tran

Affiliations Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

John R. Webb

Affiliations Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

May Q. Wong

Affiliation Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Darin A. Wick

Affiliation Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Andrew Wray

Affiliation Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Elissa McMurtrie

Affiliation BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Martin Köbel

Affiliation Department of Anatomical Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Steven E. Kalloger

Affiliation Department of Anatomical Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

C. Blake Gilks

Affiliation Department of Anatomical Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Peter H. Watson

Affiliations Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Brad H. Nelson

bnelson@bccancer.bc.ca

Affiliations Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KM RB AG MM NN RS ET JRW MQW DAW AW SEK PHW BN. Performed the experiments: KM RB AG NN AN RS ET JRW MQW DAW AW MK BG. Analyzed the data: KM RB AG MM NN AN JSN RS ET JRW MQW DAW AW MK SEK BG PHW BN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EM. Wrote the paper: KM RB JSN PHW BN. Recruited patients to this study: EM.