About the Authors

Christopher M. Bryant

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher M. Bryant, Daniel L. Albertus

Affiliation Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Daniel L. Albertus

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher M. Bryant, Daniel L. Albertus

Affiliation Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Sinae Kim

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Guoan Chen

Affiliation Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Christian Brambilla

Affiliation Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Programme Cartes d'Identité des Tumeurs, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

Mickael Guedj

Affiliation Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Programme Cartes d'Identité des Tumeurs, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

Chinatsu Arima

Affiliation Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

William D. Travis

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Yasushi Yatabe

Affiliation Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Takashi Takahashi

Affiliation Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Elisabeth Brambilla

Affiliation Département d'Anatomie et Cytologie Pathologiques, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

David G. Beer

dgbeer@umich.edu

Affiliations Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMB DLA DB. Analyzed the data: CMB DLA SK GC MG CA WT YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB YY TT EB. Wrote the paper: CMB DLA DB.