About the Authors

Aline Talhouk

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Stefan Kommoss

Affiliation Department of Women’s Health, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Robertson Mackenzie

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Martin Cheung

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada

Samuel Leung

Affiliation Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre (GPEC), Vancouver General Hospital and The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Derek S. Chiu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Steve E. Kalloger

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Pancreas Centre BC, Vancouver, Canada

David G. Huntsman

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

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America

Maria Intermaggio

Affiliation School of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Jacek Gronwald

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Fong C. Chan

Affiliation Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada

Susan J. Ramus

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

Affiliation Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada

David W. Scott

Affiliation Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada

Michael S. Anglesio

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.