About the Authors

Gabrielle C. Nickel

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabrielle C. Nickel, Jill Barnholtz-Sloan

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jill Barnholtz-Sloan

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabrielle C. Nickel, Jill Barnholtz-Sloan

Affiliations Department of General Medical Sciences (Oncology), Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Meetha P. Gould

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sarah McMahon

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Andrea Cohen

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Mark D. Adams

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Kishore Guda

Affiliations Department of General Medical Sciences (Oncology), Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Mark Cohen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Andrew E. Sloan

Affiliations Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Neurological Surgery, Neurological Institute, University Hospital-Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Thomas LaFramboise

Thomas.LaFramboise@case.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GCN JBS TL. Performed the experiments: GCN MPG SM AC MDA KG. Analyzed the data: GCN JBS MC KG TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JBS AES. Wrote the paper: GCN JBS AES TL.