About the Authors

Rosa Ana Risques

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Scott R. Kennedy

scottrk@uw.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

Scott Kennedy has read the journal's policy and has the following conflicts to report: 1) He is a paid consultant and equity holder of TwinStrand BioSciences Inc; 2) he has a submitted two patent application concerning methods to detect low frequency mutations with a priority date of 3/23/17; 3) he is the recipient of patent royalty payments concerning Duplex Sequencing; and 4) he has a research program funded by three grants from the Department of Defense and one from the National Institute of Justice. Rosa Ana Risques has read the journal's policy and is declaring that her research program is funded by two grants from the National Institutes of Health, one of which is a SBIR grant with TwinStrand BioSciences, Inc., a grant from the Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer, and a grant from the Mary Kay Foundation.