About the Authors

Barbara Jung

bjung@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jessica Gomez

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Eddy Chau

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jennifer Cabral

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jeffrey K. Lee

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Aimee Anselm

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Przemyslaw Slowik

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Deena Ream-Robinson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Karen Messer

Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Judith Sporn

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sung K. Shin

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

C. Richard Boland

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Ajay Goel

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

John M. Carethers

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJ AG. Performed the experiments: BJ JG EC JC JL AA PS DRR JS SKS AG. Analyzed the data: BJ JG EC JC JL PS KM JS SKS AG. Wrote the paper: BJ KM RB AG JMC. Statistical Support: KM.