About the Authors

Helena F. Deus

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Romesh Stanislaus

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Diogo F. Veiga

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Carmen Behrens

Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ignacio I. Wistuba

Affiliations Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John D. Minna

Affiliation Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, Simmons Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Harold R. Garner

Affiliations Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, Simmons Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Center for Biomedical Inventions, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Stephen G. Swisher

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jack A. Roth

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Arlene M. Correa

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bradley Broom

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kevin Coombes

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Allen Chang

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lynn H. Vogel

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jonas S. Almeida

jalmeida@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HFD CB IW JSA. Performed the experiments: HFD JSA. Analyzed the data: HFD JSA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HFD RS DFV CB JDM HRG SGS JAR AMC BB KC AC LHV JSA. Wrote the paper: JSA.