About the Authors
- Aline Talhouk
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Stefan Kommoss
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Affiliation Department of Women’s Health, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
- Robertson Mackenzie
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Martin Cheung
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Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada
- Samuel Leung
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Affiliation Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre (GPEC), Vancouver General Hospital and The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Derek S. Chiu
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Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Steve E. Kalloger
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Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Pancreas Centre BC, Vancouver, Canada
- David G. Huntsman
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Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre (GPEC), Vancouver General Hospital and The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Stephanie Chen
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America
- Maria Intermaggio
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Affiliation School of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Jacek Gronwald
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Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
- Fong C. Chan
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Affiliation Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada
- Susan J. Ramus
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Affiliations School of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
- Christian Steidl
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Affiliation Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada
- David W. Scott
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Affiliation Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada
- Michael S. Anglesio
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* E-mail: manglesio@bccrc.ca
Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Competing Interests
AT, MSA, and DGH are involved in the development of a diagnostic classifier for ovarian carcinomas. CS and DWS have contributed to a patented predictive classifier for use in Hodgkin Lymphoma (US Provisional Patent Application #6159116). DWS is also a named inventor on a patent for lymphoma subtyping that has been licensed by NanoString Technologies, Inc (International patent application No. PCT/US14/64161). Neither DWS nor CS receive royalties or licensing payments related to the above patents. These interests have not influenced the interpretation of the data herein, and do not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AT MSA DWS. Performed the experiments: SK RM MC MSA SC MI. Analyzed the data: AT SL DSC SEK FCC MSA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DGH JG SJR CS DWS MSA. Wrote the paper: AT MSA DWS.