About the Authors

Elizabeth Iorns

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Science Exchange Inc., Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Katherine Drews-Elger

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Toby M. Ward

Affiliation Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Sonja Dean

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Jennifer Clarke

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Deborah Berry

Affiliation Histopathology & Tissue Shared Resource, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Dorraya El Ashry

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Marc Lippman

mlippman@med.miami.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

Elizabeth Iorns is employed by Science Exchange Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EI TMW JC DB DEA ML. Performed the experiments: EI KDE TMW SD DB DEA ML. Analyzed the data: EI KDE TMW SD JC DB DEA ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC DB DEA. Wrote the paper: EI KDE TMW ML.