About the Authors

Igor Vidal

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Qizhi Zheng

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jessica L. Hicks

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jiayu Chen

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Elizabeth A. Platz

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Brady Urological Research Institute at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Bruce J. Trock

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

Affiliations The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Brady Urological Research Institute at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Urology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ibrahim Kulac

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

Javier A. Baena-Del Valle

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá University Hospital, Bogotá, Colombia

Karen S. Sfanos

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Brady Urological Research Institute at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Urology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sarah Ernst

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Tracy Jones

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Janielle P. Maynard

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Stephanie A. Glavaris

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

William G. Nelson

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

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Brady Urological Research Institute at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Urology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian

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

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Brady Urological Research Institute at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Angelo M. De Marzo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ademarz@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Brady Urological Research Institute at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Urology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Conflicts of interest: S.Y., W.G.N., and A.M.D. are paid consultants to Cepheid LLC, with whom they are developing epigenetic tests for prostate cancer. S.Y. has received sponsored research support from Cepheid for development and testing of prostate cancer epigenetic biomarkers. This arrangement has been reviewed and approved by the Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.