About the Authors

Mayu O. Frank

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Nathalie E. Blachere

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

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Salina Parveen

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Ezgi Hacisuleyman

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

John Fak

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Joseph M. Luna

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America, Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Eleftherios Michailidis

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Samara Wright

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Child and Family Center, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Pamela Stark

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Child and Family Center, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Ann Campbell

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Occupational Health Services, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Ashley Foo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Occupational Health Services, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Thomas P. Sakmar

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Signal Transduction, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Virginia Huffman

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Human Resources, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Marissa Bergh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Audrey Goldfarb

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Andres Mansisidor

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Genome Architecture and Dynamics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Agata L. Patriotis

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Karl H. Palmquist

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Morphogenesis, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Nicolas Poulton

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Rachel Leicher

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

César D. M. Vargas

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Irene Duba

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Genome Architecture and Dynamics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Arlene Hurley

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rockefeller University Hospital, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Joseph Colagreco

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Nicole Pagane

Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Genome Architecture and Dynamics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Dana E. Orange

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, United States of America

Kevin Mora

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Jennifer L. Rakeman

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Laboratory, New York City Department of Health and Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, United States of America

Randal C. Fowler

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Laboratory, New York City Department of Health and Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, United States of America

Helen Fernandes

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

Michelle F. Lamendola-Essel

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Nicholas Didkovsky

Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Leopolda Silvera

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Elmhurst Hospital Center, New York City Health and Hospitals, Elmhurst, NY, United States of America

Joseph Masci

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Elmhurst Hospital Center, New York City Health and Hospitals, Elmhurst, NY, United States of America

Machelle Allen

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Elmhurst Hospital Center, New York City Health and Hospitals, Elmhurst, NY, United States of America

Charles M. Rice

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Robert B. Darnell

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

darnelr@rockefeller.edu

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

T.P.S. wishes to thank the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, the Elinor Schwartz Charitable Trust and the Danica Foundation for support. DEO is an inventor on a provisional unlicensed patent entitled “Method and System for RNA Isolation from Self-Collected and Small Volume Samples”, US 63/050,155. C.M.R acknowledges the generous support of the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, the BAWD Foundation, and The Rockefeller University. R.B.D. discloses that he receives consulting fees as a Senior Visiting Fellow at MITRE Corporation, that he has started a charitable LLC, D4S Testing, to offer free DRUL saliva testing to NYC school children, and that he is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.