About the Authors

Thomas R. Cawthorn

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas R. Cawthorn, Juan C. Moreno

Affiliations Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Juan C. Moreno

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas R. Cawthorn, Juan C. Moreno

Affiliations Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Moyez Dharsee

Affiliation Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Danh Tran-Thanh

Affiliations Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Suzanne Ackloo

Affiliation Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pei Hong Zhu

Affiliation Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Girish Sardana

Affiliation Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jian Chen

Affiliation Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Peter Kupchak

Affiliation Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lindsay M. Jacks

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Naomi A. Miller

Affiliations Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bruce J. Youngson

Affiliations Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vladimir Iakovlev

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cynthia J. Guidos

Affiliation Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, and Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Katherine A. Vallis

Affiliation MRC/CRUK Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Kenneth R. Evans

Affiliation Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

David McCready

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Wey L. Leong

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Susan J. Done

sdone@uhnres.utoronto.ca

Affiliations Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJD. Performed the experiments: SA PHZ GS JC. Analyzed the data: SJD TRC JM DTT MD SA PHZ GS PK LMJ JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NAM BJY VI WL DM. Wrote the paper: SJD JM TRC. Designed the experiments: SJD KRE. Designed the in-house TMAs: SJD NAM BJY. Selected cases from tissue bank: VI SJD. Contributed conceptually to the project and secured funding: CJG KAV.