About the Authors

Yimei Li

liy3@email.chop.edu (LY)

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Matt Hall

Affiliation Children’s Hospital Association, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America

Brian T. Fisher

Affiliations Division of Infectious Disease, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alix E. Seif

Affiliation Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yuan-Shung Huang

Affiliation Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rochelle Bagatell

Affiliation Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kelly D. Getz

Affiliation Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Todd A. Alonzo

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Children’s Oncology Group, Monrovia, California, United States of America

Robert B. Gerbing

Affiliation Children’s Oncology Group, Monrovia, California, United States of America

Lillian Sung

Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Peter C. Adamson

Affiliations Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Children’s Oncology Group, Monrovia, California, United States of America

Alan Gamis

Affiliations Children’s Oncology Group, Monrovia, California, United States of America, Division of Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, Children’s Mercy Hospital and Clinics, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Richard Aplenc

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL RA. Performed the experiments: YL MH RA. Analyzed the data: YL MH RA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL MH RA. Wrote the paper: YL MH BTF AES YSH RB KDG TAA RBG LS PCA AG RA.