About the Authors

Elizabeth A. Guancial

elizabeth_guancial@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine/James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Deepak Kilari

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Guang-Qian Xiao

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Sohaib H. Abu-Farsakh

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Andrea Baran

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Edward M. Messing

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Eric S. Kim

Affiliation Department of Medicine/James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EAG DK GQX SHAF ESK. Performed the experiments: GQX SHAF ESK. Analyzed the data: EAG DK AB ESK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EAG DK GQX SHAF EMM ESK. Wrote the paper: EAG DK GQX SHAF AB EMM ESK.