About the Authors

Jose Rodrigo Espinosa Fernandez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bedrich L. Eckhardt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute and School of Cancer Medicine La Trobe University, Heidelberg, Australia

Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jangsoon Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bora Lim

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Troy Pearson

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rob S. Seitz

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Insight Genetics Incorporated, Nashville, Tennessee, United Sates of America

David R. Hout

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Insight Genetics Incorporated, Nashville, Tennessee, United Sates of America

Brock L. Schweitzer

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Insight Genetics Incorporated, Nashville, Tennessee, United Sates of America

Tyler J. Nielsen

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Insight Genetics Incorporated, Nashville, Tennessee, United Sates of America

O. Rayne Lawrence

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Insight Genetics Incorporated, Nashville, Tennessee, United Sates of America

Ying Wang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Arvind Rao

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Naoto T. Ueno

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

nueno@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors of this paper have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this paper have the following competing interests: NTU has contracted research with Insight Genetics Inc. (http://www.insightgenetics.com/). RSS, DRH, BLS, TJN, ORL are all paid employees of Insight Genetics, Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors would like to declare the following patents/patent applications associated with this research: Insight Genetics Inc. has taken an exclusive license to a patent application for the analysis method to categorize TNBCType patients into various subtypes. The patent application is as follows: [US14/358,330]. Gene expression datasets can be uploaded for classification by TNBCType at http://cbc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/tnbc/. TNBCType-IM is a proprietary algorithm of Insight Genetics Inc.