About the Authors

Xuekui Zhang

Affiliation Statistics Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Gordon Robertson

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Sangsoon Woo

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Public Health Sciences Divisions, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Brad G. Hoffman

Affiliations Child and Family Research Institute, British Columbia Children's Hospital and Sunny Hill Health Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Raphael Gottardo

rgottard@fhcrc.org

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Public Health Sciences Divisions, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: RG XZ GR SW BH. Developed the methodology and software, and performed the analyses: XZ RG. Helped with the data analysis: SW. Conceived the study, and participated in its design and coordination: GR BH RG. Read and approved the final manuscript: RG XZ GR SW BH.