About the Authors

Brian D. Lehmann

brian.d.lehmann@vanderbilt.edu (BDL); j.pietenpol@vanderbilt.edu (JAP)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Bojana Jovanović

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States of America

Xi Chen

Affiliations Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America

Monica V. Estrada

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Breast Cancer Research Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Kimberly N. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yu Shyr

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Sciences, Division of Cancer Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Harold L. Moses

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Melinda E. Sanders

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jennifer A. Pietenpol

brian.d.lehmann@vanderbilt.edu (BDL); j.pietenpol@vanderbilt.edu (JAP)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read and understood the PLOS journal policy on reporting conflict of interest and declare the following interests: BDL and JAP are inventors (PCT/US2012/065724) of intellectual property (TNBCtype) licensed by Insight Genetics Inc. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BDL JAP. Performed the experiments: BDL BJ MVE MES XC KNJ JAP. Analyzed the data: BDL XC MVE MES YS JAP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BDL BJ MES MVE KNJ. Wrote the paper: BDL BJ XC MVE HLM MES YS JAP. Study supervision: BDL JAP.