About the Authors

William H. Yong

Contributed equally to this work with: William H. Yong, Maryam Shabihkhani, Donatello Telesca

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Maryam Shabihkhani

Contributed equally to this work with: William H. Yong, Maryam Shabihkhani, Donatello Telesca

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Donatello Telesca

Contributed equally to this work with: William H. Yong, Maryam Shabihkhani, Donatello Telesca

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shuai Yang

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command, Guangzhou, China, Department of Surgery/Surgical-Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jonathan L. Tso

Affiliation Department of Surgery/Surgical-Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jimmy C. Menjivar

Affiliation Department of Surgery/Surgical-Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Bowen Wei

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gregory M. Lucey

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sergey Mareninov

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Zugen Chen

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Linda M. Liau

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Albert Lai

Affiliations Department of Neurology/Neuro-Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Stanley F. Nelson

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Timothy F. Cloughesy

Affiliations Department of Neurology/Neuro-Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Cho-Lea Tso

ctso@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery/Surgical-Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Based on this work the authors have filed U.S. Patent Application, Serial No.: 62/060,491 (Provisional patent application only). The two inventors are Cho-Lea Tso (corresponding author), and William H. Yong (first author). The authors want to confirm that this application does not alter their adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WHY CLT. Performed the experiments: MS SY JLT JCM BW GML SM. Analyzed the data: WHY MS DT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WHY ZC LML AL SFN TFC. Wrote the paper: WHY MS DT CLT.