About the Authors

Marius Ilie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Université Côte d'Azur, University Hospital Federation OncoAge, Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France, Université Côte d'Azur, University Hospital Federation OncoAge, Hospital-Related Biobank, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INSERM, Institute of Research on Cancer and Ageing of Nice (IRCAN), University Hospital Federation OncoAge, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France

Shirin Khambata-Ford

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America

Christiane Copie-Bergman

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations AP-HP, Groupe Henri Mondor-Albert Chenevier, Departement de Pathologie, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France, Université Paris-Est, Faculté de Médecine, Créteil, France, INSERM, Unité U955, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France

Lingkang Huang

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America

Jonathan Juco

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America

Veronique Hofman

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Université Côte d'Azur, University Hospital Federation OncoAge, Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France, Université Côte d'Azur, University Hospital Federation OncoAge, Hospital-Related Biobank, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INSERM, Institute of Research on Cancer and Ageing of Nice (IRCAN), University Hospital Federation OncoAge, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France

Paul Hofman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hofman.p@chu-nice.fr

Affiliations Université Côte d'Azur, University Hospital Federation OncoAge, Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France, Université Côte d'Azur, University Hospital Federation OncoAge, Hospital-Related Biobank, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INSERM, Institute of Research on Cancer and Ageing of Nice (IRCAN), University Hospital Federation OncoAge, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France

Competing Interests

MI, CC-B, VH, and PH have declared that no competing interests exist. SK-F is an employee of and stockholder in Merck & Co., Inc. LH and JJ are employees of Merck & Co., Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.