About the Authors

Steve Goodison

Affiliations Cancer Research Institute, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, Florida, United States of America, Nonagen Bioscience Corp, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Myron Chang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Yunfeng Dai

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Virginia Urquidi

Affiliations Cancer Research Institute, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, Florida, United States of America, Nonagen Bioscience Corp, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Charles J. Rosser

Charles.rosser@orlandohealth.com

Affiliations Section of Urologic Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, Florida, United States of America, Nonagen Bioscience Corp, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

SG, VU and CJR are employees/stockholders of Nonagen Bioscience Corp. Furthermore, there are no patents issued, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. MC and YD have declared that they do not have a competing interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG VU CJR. Performed the experiments: SG VU CJR. Analyzed the data: MC YD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG CJR. Wrote the paper: SG VU CJR.