About the Authors

Ida Kappel Buhl

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ikb@medical-prognosis.com

Affiliations Medical Prognosis Institute A/S, Hoersholm, Denmark, Section for Molecular Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Eric Santoni-Rugiu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Jesper Ravn

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anker Hansen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Medical Prognosis Institute A/S, Hoersholm, Denmark, Oncology Venture Aps, Hoersholm, Denmark

Ib Jarle Christensen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark

Thomas Jensen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Medical Prognosis Institute A/S, Hoersholm, Denmark, Oncology Venture Aps, Hoersholm, Denmark

Bruce Pratt

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Oncology Venture Aps, Hoersholm, Denmark

Jon Askaa

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Prognosis Institute A/S, Hoersholm, Denmark

Peter Buhl Jensen

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Medical Prognosis Institute A/S, Hoersholm, Denmark, Oncology Venture Aps, Hoersholm, Denmark

Steen Knudsen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Medical Prognosis Institute A/S, Hoersholm, Denmark, Oncology Venture Aps, Hoersholm, Denmark

Jens Benn Sørensen

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Authors IKB, AH, TJ, BP, JA, PBJ, SK declare past or present primary employment or ownership in a company (Medical Prognosis Institute A/S and/or Oncology Venture Aps) that has a potential to benefit from these results: Paid employment Medical Prognosis Institute A/S: IKB, AH, TJ, JA, PBJ, SK. Board membership Medical Prognosis Institute A/S: PBJ, SK. Ownership of shares in Medical Prognosis Institute A/S: AH, TJ, JA, PBJ, SK. IKB (immediate family). Consultancy Medical Prognosis Institute A/S: IJC. Paid employment Oncology Venture Aps: AH, TJ, BP, PBJ, SK. Board membership Oncology Venture Aps: SK, PBJ (immediate family). Ownership of shares Oncology Venture Aps: AH, TJ, JA, PBJ, SK. IKB (immediate family). Consultancy Oncology Venture Aps: IJC. ESR declare to have received funding outside of the submitted work from Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, Roche. JR and JBS have declared that no competing interests exist. Medical Prognosis Institute holds the following patent on the subject matter [The final gene signature is covered by issued patent US8445198B2, “Methods, kits and devices for identifying biomarkers of treatment response and use thereof to predict treatment efficacy”, and pending patent (62/440,883)]. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.