About the Authors

Hua Wei

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ashish M. Kamat

Affiliation Department of Urology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Saad Aldousari

Affiliation Department of Urology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yuanqing Ye

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Maosheng Huang

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Colin P. Dinney

Affiliation Department of Urology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xifeng Wu

xwu@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW AMK SA YY MH CPD XW. Performed the experiments: HW YY MH XW. Analyzed the data: YY MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMK CPD XW. Wrote the paper: HW XW.