About the Authors

Sung Hee Choi

Contributed equally to this work with: Sung Hee Choi, Eric Severson

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States of America

Eric Severson

Contributed equally to this work with: Sung Hee Choi, Eric Severson

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Departments of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Warren S. Pear

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Xiaole S. Liu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Departments of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Jon C. Aster

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

stephen_blacklow@hms.harvard.edu (SCB); jaster@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (JCA)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Stephen C. Blacklow

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

stephen_blacklow@hms.harvard.edu (SCB); jaster@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (JCA)

Affiliations Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

One of the authors (Stephen C. Blacklow) received funding Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research: Novartis-DFCI DDP. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.