About the Authors
- Heather Wilson-Robles
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: hwilson@cvm.tamu.edu
Affiliations Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Volition Veterinary Diagnostics Development, Henderson, Nevada, United States of America
- Emma Warry
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
- Tasha Miller
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Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Validation
Affiliation Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
- Jill Jarvis
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
- Matthew Matsushita
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
- Pamela Miller
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Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
- Marielle Herzog
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Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Belgian Volition SRL, Parc Scientifique Crealys, Isnes, Belgium
- Jean-Valery Turatsinze
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Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Belgian Volition SRL, Parc Scientifique Crealys, Isnes, Belgium
- Theresa K. Kelly
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Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Volition America LLC, Henderson, Nevada, United States of America
- S. Thomas Butera
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Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Volition Veterinary Diagnostics Development, Henderson, Nevada, United States of America
- Gaetan Michel
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Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Belgian Volition SRL, Parc Scientifique Crealys, Isnes, Belgium, Volition America LLC, Henderson, Nevada, United States of America
Competing Interests
JVT, TK, MH, TB and GM are employees of Belgian Volition, Volition Diagnostics UK ltd & Volition America, which have patents covering Nu. Q technology and are developers of Nu.QTM assays. Volition Veterinary is a joint venture between Belgian Volition and Texas A&M University. HWR is a paid consultant of Volition Veterinary. EW, TM, PM, MM and JJ have no conflicts of interest to declare. Additional salary support for TM was provided by the Fred and Vola Palmer Chair in Comparative Oncology held by HWR. The Palmers did not play a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript and only provided financial support for the authors’ salaries (T.M.). This does not alter our adherence to PLoS One policies on sharing data and materials.