About the Authors

Leslie M. Cope

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Mary Jo Fackler

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Zoila Lopez-Bujanda

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Antonio C. Wolff

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kala Visvanathan

Affiliations Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joe W. Gray

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Saraswati Sukumar

Affiliations Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Christopher B. Umbricht

cumbrich@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMC MJF SS. Performed the experiments: LMC MJF ZLB. Analyzed the data: LMC MJF KV SS CBU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LMC JWG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LMC MJF ACW KV SS CBU.