About the Authors

Harry H. Yoon

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jared M. Orrock

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Nathan R. Foster

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Daniel J. Sargent

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Thomas C. Smyrk

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Frank A. Sinicrope

Sinicrope.frank@mayo.edu

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HHY FAS. Performed the experiments: JMO TCS. Analyzed the data: HHY FAS NRF DJS. Wrote the paper: HHY FAS.