About the Authors

Santosh K. Patnaik

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Jesper Dahlgaard

Current address: Institute of Pathology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark

Affiliation Medical Prognosis Institute, Hørsholm, Denmark

Wiktor Mazin

Affiliation Medical Prognosis Institute, Hørsholm, Denmark

Eric Kannisto

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Thomas Jensen

Affiliation Medical Prognosis Institute, Hørsholm, Denmark

Steen Knudsen

Affiliation Medical Prognosis Institute, Hørsholm, Denmark

Sai Yendamuri

sai.yendamuri@roswellpark.org

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Surgery, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: co-authors JD, WM and SK are/were employees of Medical Prognosis Institute, Hørsholm, Denmark, which focuses on developing and commercializing microarray-based technology for use in clinical care for cancer. However, this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. One of the co-authors of this manuscript, Sai Yendamuri (SY) is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SY SK. Performed the experiments: EK JD TJ WM. Analyzed the data: SKP JD. Wrote the paper: SKP SY.