About the Authors

Petr Novak

petr@umbr.cas.cz

Affiliations Arizona Cancer Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Biology Centre ASCR, v.v.i., Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Martha R. Stampfer

Affiliations Arizona Cancer Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Jose L. Munoz-Rodriguez

Affiliations Arizona Cancer Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

James C. Garbe

Affiliation Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Mathias Ehrich

Affiliation Sequenom, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Bernard W. Futscher

Affiliations Arizona Cancer Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Taylor J. Jensen

Affiliations Arizona Cancer Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, John Hopkins Ct, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Co-authors TJJ and ME are current employees and shareholders of Sequenom, Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. Co-author Bernard W. Futscher is a PLOS ONE Editorial board member. 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: PN TJJ BWF. Performed the experiments: TJJ JLM JCG ME. Analyzed the data: PN TJJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRS. Wrote the paper: PN TJJ MRS BWF.