About the Authors

Chanh Huynh

Contributed equally to this work with: Chanh Huynh, Laura Poliseno

Affiliations Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Laura Poliseno

Contributed equally to this work with: Chanh Huynh, Laura Poliseno

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Miguel F. Segura

Affiliations Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Ratna Medicherla

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Adele Haimovic

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Silvia Menendez

Affiliations Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Shulian Shang

Affiliation Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Anna Pavlick

Affiliations Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Yongzhao Shao

Affiliation Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Farbod Darvishian

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

John F. Boylan

Current address: Discovery Oncology, Celgene Research, San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Discovery Oncology, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America

Iman Osman

Eva.Hernando-Monge@nyumc.org (EH); Iman.Osman@nyumc.org (IO)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Eva Hernando

Eva.Hernando-Monge@nyumc.org (EH); Iman.Osman@nyumc.org (IO)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

JFB is a former employee of Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CH LP MFS JFB AP IO EH. Performed the experiments: CH LP MFS RM AH SM FD. Analyzed the data: CH LP MFS IO EH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS YS. Wrote the paper: CH LP MFS IO EH.