About the Authors

Manjusha Thakar

Contributed equally to this work with: Manjusha Thakar, Yue Hu

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

nita.ahuja@yale.edu (NA); mthakar3@jhmi.edu (MT)

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Yue Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Manjusha Thakar, Yue Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Current address: Hospital of Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Michael Morreale

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

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Lane Lerner

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Wan Ying Lin

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Rupashree Sen

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Yi Cai

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Enusha Karunasena

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Maya Thakar

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Soren Saggi

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Harold Keer

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Astex Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated, Pleasanton, CA, United States of America

Nita Ahuja

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

nita.ahuja@yale.edu (NA); mthakar3@jhmi.edu (MT)

Current address: Department of Surgery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States America

Affiliations Department of Surgical Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

N.A. has licensed a biomarker for early detection of pancreas cancer to Cepheid and has grant funding from Astex Pharmaceuticals. H.K. reviewed the manuscript; he is a scientific contributor and Vice President at Astex Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.