About the Authors

Eiji Sunami

Contributed equally to this work with: Eiji Sunami, Michiel de Maat

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Michiel de Maat

Contributed equally to this work with: Eiji Sunami, Michiel de Maat

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Anna Vu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Roderick R. Turner

Affiliation Department of Surgical Pathology, Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Dave S. B. Hoon

hoon@jwci.org

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES MdM DSBH. Performed the experiments: ES MdM AV. Analyzed the data: MdM DSBH ES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RRT. Wrote the paper: ES MdM.