About the Authors

Michael Tayao

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Tayao, Juliana Andrici

Affiliations Cancer Diagnosis and Pathology Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, 2007

Juliana Andrici

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Tayao, Juliana Andrici

iand7910@uni.sydney.edu.au

Affiliations Cancer Diagnosis and Pathology Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2006, Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065

Mahtab Farzin

Affiliations Cancer Diagnosis and Pathology Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065, Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065

Adele Clarkson

Affiliations Cancer Diagnosis and Pathology Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065, Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065

Loretta Sioson

Affiliations Cancer Diagnosis and Pathology Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065, Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065

Nicole Watson

Affiliation Cancer Diagnosis and Pathology Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065

Terence C Chua

Affiliations Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, and Discipline of Surgery, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Macquarie University Hospital, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia

Tamara Sztynda

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, 2007

Jaswinder S Samra

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2006, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, and Discipline of Surgery, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Macquarie University Hospital, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia

Anthony J Gill

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Cancer Diagnosis and Pathology Research Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2006, Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065, Sydney Vital Translational Research Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Pacific Highway, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJG MT TS. Performed the experiments: MT AJG MF AC LS TCC JSS. Analyzed the data: MT JA AJG NW TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJG. Wrote the paper: MT JA AJG TS.