About the Authors

Kevin V. Lemley

klemley@chla.usc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Serena M. Bagnasco

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Cynthia C. Nast

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Laura Barisoni

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Catherine M. Conway

Current address: Leica Biosystems Ltd, Dublin, Ireland

Affiliation National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen M. Hewitt

Affiliation National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter X. K. Song

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Conway is now working for Leica Microsystems. At the time of the research, she was at the National Cancer Institute. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KL. Performed the experiments: KL SB CN LB. Analyzed the data: KL CC SH PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC SH PS. Wrote the paper: KL SB CN LB SH PS.