About the Authors

Yanxin Luo

Affiliations Department of Colorectal Surgery, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Andrew M. Kaz

Affiliations Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Research and Development Service, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Samornmas Kanngurn

Affiliation Tumor Biology Research Unit and Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand

Piri Welsch

Affiliation Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Shelli M. Morris

Affiliation Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jianping Wang

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China

James D. Lutterbaugh

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Ireland Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sanford D. Markowitz

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Ireland Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

William M. Grady

wgrady@fhcrc.org

Affiliations Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WMG YL AMK SK JW SDM. Performed the experiments: YL SK JDL AMK. Analyzed the data: YL SK JDL AMK PW WMG SDM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDM JDL WMG YL SMM. Wrote the paper: YL WMG JW SMM AMK SDM.