About the Authors

Maria Vassilakopoulou

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Vassilakopoulou, Taiwo Togun

Affiliation Yale University, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Taiwo Togun

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Vassilakopoulou, Taiwo Togun

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Urania Dafni

Affiliation Laboratory of Biostatistics, University of Athens School of Nursing, Athens, Greece

Huan Cheng

Affiliation Yale University, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jennifer Bordeaux

Affiliation Yale University, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Veronique M. Neumeister

Affiliation Yale University, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Mattheos Bobos

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

George Pentheroudakis

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece

Dimosthenis V. Skarlos

Affiliation Second Department of Medical Oncology, “Metropolitan” Hospital, Piraeus, Greece

Dimitrios Pectasides

Affiliation Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, “Hippokration” Hospital, Athens, Greece

Vassiliki Kotoula

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece, Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

George Fountzilas

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece, Department of Medical Oncology, “Papageorgiou” Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

David L. Rimm

Affiliation Yale University, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Amanda Psyrri

dpsyrri@med.uoa.gr

Affiliation Division of Oncology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP GF DLR MV. Performed the experiments: MV VMN. Analyzed the data: MV TT UD DLR AP HC JB MB GP DVS DP VK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DLR. Wrote the paper: MV DLR AP. Approved the final version: HC JB MB GP DVS DP VK.