About the Authors

Vania Bonifaz-Peña

Affiliation Computational Genomics Consortium, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

Alejandra V. Contreras

Affiliation Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

Claudio Jose Struchiner

Affiliation Programa de Computação Científica, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rosimeire A. Roela

Affiliation Departamento de Radiologia e Oncologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Tatiane K. Furuya-Mazzotti

Affiliation Departamento de Radiologia e Oncologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Roger Chammas

Affiliation Departamento de Radiologia e Oncologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Claudia Rangel-Escareño

Affiliations Computational Genomics Consortium, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, United States of America

Laura Uribe-Figueroa

Current address: Latin America Marketing, Affymetrix Incorporation, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Affiliation Genotyping and Expression Analysis Unit, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

María José Gómez-Vázquez

Current address: Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Computational Genomics Consortium, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

Howard L. McLeod

Affiliations DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute, University of South Florida Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Pharmacogenomics Department, Pharmacogenetics for Every Nation Initiative, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Alfredo Hidalgo-Miranda

Affiliation Cancer Genomics Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

Esteban J. Parra

Contributed equally to this work with: Esteban J. Parra, Juan Carlos Fernández-López, Guilherme Suarez-Kurtz

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Juan Carlos Fernández-López

Contributed equally to this work with: Esteban J. Parra, Juan Carlos Fernández-López, Guilherme Suarez-Kurtz

jfernandez@inmegen.gob.mx (JCFL); Kurtz@inca.gov.br (GSK)

Affiliation Computational Genomics Consortium, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

Guilherme Suarez-Kurtz

Contributed equally to this work with: Esteban J. Parra, Juan Carlos Fernández-López, Guilherme Suarez-Kurtz

jfernandez@inmegen.gob.mx (JCFL); Kurtz@inca.gov.br (GSK)

Affiliation Divisão de Farmacologia, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following competing interests to declare: Co-author Roger Chammas has a potential conflict of interest as a member of the academic editorial board of the journal. Co-author Laura Uribe-Figueroa is an employee of the commercial company Affymetrix Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCFL GSK EJP VBP. Performed the experiments: RAR TKFM RC LUF. Analyzed the data: VBP AVC CJS EJP JCFL GSK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VBP AVC CJS RAR TKFM RC CRE LUF MJGV HLM AHM EJP JCFL GSK. Wrote the paper: JCFL GSK EJP VBP AVC.