About the Authors

Vei Mah

vmah@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America

Mohammad Alavi

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America

Diana C. Márquez-Garbán

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America

Erin L. Maresh

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America

Sara R. Kim

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America

Steve Horvath

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America

Lora Bagryanova

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America

Sara Huerta-Yepez

Affiliation Unidad de Investigación en Enfermedades Oncológicas, Hospital Infantil de México, Federico Gómez, SSa, México

David Chia

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America

Richard Pietras

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America

Lee Goodglick

† Deceased.

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LG VM RP. Performed the experiments: ELM SRK DCMG SHY. Analyzed the data: MA VM LB SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC LG. Wrote the paper: VM.