About the Authors

Dwain Mefford

dwainmefford@gmail.com

Affiliation Trinidad, California, United States of America

Joel Mefford

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: DM. Wrote the paper: DM JM. Conceived and implemented the algorithm that discovered the stromal gene sets: DM.