About the Authors

Chen Shao

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Shao, Chun-Peng Liao

Affiliations Uro-Oncolgy Research Laboratories, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Urologic Oncology Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Department of Urology Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Chun-Peng Liao

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Shao, Chun-Peng Liao

Affiliations Uro-Oncolgy Research Laboratories, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Urologic Oncology Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America

Peizhen Hu

Affiliations Uro-Oncolgy Research Laboratories, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Urologic Oncology Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America

Chia-Yi Chu

Affiliations Uro-Oncolgy Research Laboratories, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Urologic Oncology Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America

Lei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Matthew H. T. Bui

Affiliation Divsion of Urology- Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Christopher S. Ng

Affiliation Divsion of Urology- Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David Y. Josephson

Affiliation Divsion of Urology- Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Beatrice Knudsen

Affiliations Uro-Oncolgy Research Laboratories, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Urologic Oncology Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Translational Pathology and Biobank, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mourad Tighiouart

Affiliation Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hyung L. Kim

Affiliations Uro-Oncolgy Research Laboratories, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Urologic Oncology Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Divsion of Urology- Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Haiyen E. Zhau

Affiliations Uro-Oncolgy Research Laboratories, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Urologic Oncology Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America

Leland W. K. Chung

Edwin.Posadas@scmc.edu (EMP); Ruoxiang.wang@cshs.org (RW); Leland.chung@cshs.org (LWKC)

Affiliations Uro-Oncolgy Research Laboratories, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Urologic Oncology Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Division of Hematology Oncology-Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ruoxiang Wang

Edwin.Posadas@scmc.edu (EMP); Ruoxiang.wang@cshs.org (RW); Leland.chung@cshs.org (LWKC)

Affiliations Uro-Oncolgy Research Laboratories, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Urologic Oncology Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Division of Hematology Oncology-Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Edwin M. Posadas

Edwin.Posadas@scmc.edu (EMP); Ruoxiang.wang@cshs.org (RW); Leland.chung@cshs.org (LWKC)

Affiliations Uro-Oncolgy Research Laboratories, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Urologic Oncology Program, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angles, California, United States of America, Division of Hematology Oncology-Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LWKC RXW EMP. Performed the experiments: CS CPL PZH CYC LZ HEZ RXW. Analyzed the data: CS CPL MT HEZ LWKC RXW EMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHTB CSN DYJ BK HLK EMP. Wrote the paper: CS CPL MHTB CSN DYJ HLK MT LWKC HEZ RXW EMP.