About the Authors

Lori Rink

Contributed equally to this work with: Lori Rink, Michael F. Ochs

Lori.Rink@fccc.edu

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael F. Ochs

Contributed equally to this work with: Lori Rink, Michael F. Ochs

Affiliation Departments of Oncology and Health Science Informatics, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yan Zhou

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Margaret von Mehren

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Andrew K. Godwin

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LR MFO MvM AKG. Performed the experiments: LR. Analyzed the data: LR MFO YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LR MvM AKG. Wrote the paper: LR MFO.