About the Authors

Stacia K. Wyman

Affiliation Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rachael K. Parkin

Affiliation Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Patrick S. Mitchell

Affiliation Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Brian R. Fritz

Current address: Illumina, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kathy O'Briant

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Andrew K. Godwin

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nicole Urban

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Charles W. Drescher

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Beatrice S. Knudsen

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Muneesh Tewari

mtewari@fhcrc.org

Affiliations Division of Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

M. Tewari is a paid member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Combimatrix, Inc.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT. Performed the experiments: RKP PSM BRF. Analyzed the data: SKW MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCO AKG NU CD BSK. Wrote the paper: SKW PSM MT.