About the Authors

Nikhil Shri Sahajpal

Contributed equally to this work with: Nikhil Shri Sahajpal, Ashis K. Mondal

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Ashis K. Mondal

Contributed equally to this work with: Nikhil Shri Sahajpal, Ashis K. Mondal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Sudha Ananth

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Allan Njau

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

Pankaj Ahluwalia

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Kimya Jones

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Meenakshi Ahluwalia

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Nwogbo Okechukwu

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Natasha M. Savage

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Vamsi Kota

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Amyn M. Rojiani

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Ravindra Kolhe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

rkolhe@augusta.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Competing Interests

RK has received honoraria, travel funding, and research support from Illumina, Asuragen, QIAGEN, and BMS, and this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All clinical validation data is shared in the manuscript. The limitation associated with sharing the genetic (raw sequencing files) is related to institutional IRB and not associated with competing interest.