About the Authors
- Zhenyu Jia
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Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenyu Jia, Michael B. Lilly
* E-mail: zjia@uakron.edu
Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, United States of America, Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Nano-Material Science, Guizhou Normal College, Guiyang, China, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio, United States of America
- Michael B. Lilly
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Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenyu Jia, Michael B. Lilly
Affiliation Division of Hematology-Oncology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
- James A. Koziol
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Affiliation College of Health, Human Services and Science, Ashford University, California, United States of America
- Xin Chen
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Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Xiao-Qin Xia
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Affiliation Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Yipeng Wang
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Affiliation AltheaDx Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Douglas Skarecky
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Affiliation Department of Urology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Manuel Sutton
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Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Anne Sawyers
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Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Herbert Ruckle
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Affiliation Department of Urology, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America
- Philip M. Carpenter
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Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Jessica Wang-Rodriguez
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Jun Jiang
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Affiliation Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Nano-Material Science, Guizhou Normal College, Guiyang, China
- Mingsen Deng
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Affiliation Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Nano-Material Science, Guizhou Normal College, Guiyang, China
- Cong Pan
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Affiliation Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Nano-Material Science, Guizhou Normal College, Guiyang, China
- Jian-guo Zhu
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Affiliations Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Nano-Material Science, Guizhou Normal College, Guiyang, China, Department of Urology, Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital, Guizhou, China
- Christine E. McLaren
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Michael J. Gurley
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Affiliation Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Chung Lee
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Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Michael McClelland
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Thomas Ahlering
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Affiliation Department of Urology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Michael W. Kattan
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Affiliation Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Dan Mercola
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Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Yipeng Wang is employee of AltheaDx Inc., and Zhenyu Jia is a consultant for AltheaDx 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: ZJ MBL DM. Performed the experiments: ZJ MBL. Analyzed the data: ZJ MBL JAK XC XQX YW MS AS HR PMC JWR JJ MD CP JGZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TA DS MJG CL. Wrote the paper: ZJ MBL CEM CL MM MWK DM.