About the Authors

Fei Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Wu, Dan Huang

Affiliation Institut Mérieux Laboratory, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Dan Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Wu, Dan Huang

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Lisha Wang

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Qinghua Xu

Affiliation Institut Mérieux Laboratory, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Fang Liu

Affiliation Institut Mérieux Laboratory, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Xun Ye

Affiliation Institut Mérieux Laboratory, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Xia Meng

Affiliation Institut Mérieux Laboratory, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Xiang Du

dx2008cn@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interest: FW, QX, FL, XY and XM are the employees of bioMérieux company. THEROS CancerTYPE ID is marketed by bioMérieux. There are no patents or other products in development to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XM XD. Performed the experiments: FW DH LW. Analyzed the data: FW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FL XY DH. Wrote the paper: FW QX XM.