About the Authors

John Bartlett

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

Affiliations Diagnostic Development, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Yutaka Amemiya

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SRI Genomics Laboratory and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Molecular Diagnostics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Heleen Arts

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Genomics Laboratory, Dalhousie University and IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Jane Bayani

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

Affiliation Diagnostic Development, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Barry Eng

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Daria Grafodatskaya

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Suzanne Kamel Reid

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Professor Emeritus at Univeristy of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Genetics, The University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mathieu Lariviere

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Thermo Fisher Scientific, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Bryan Lo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Rebecca McClure

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Sciences North/Horizon Sante-Nord, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Vinay Mittal

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Thermo Fisher Scientific, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Bekim Sadikovic

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Molecular Diagnostics Laboratoroy, Victoria Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Seth Sadis

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Thermo Fisher Scientific, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Arun Seth

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SRI Genomics Laboratory and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Molecular Diagnostics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jeff Smith

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Thermo Fisher Scientific, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Xiao Zhang

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Harriet Feilotter

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

hf4@queensu.ca

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Laboratory Genetics, Kingston Health Sciences Center, Kingston Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The following authors are employed by Thermo Fisher, who provided in-kind funding (ML, SS, JS) as well as assistance with data analysis (VM). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.