About the Authors

Hiroshi Hirata

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Koji Ueno

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Varahram Shahryari

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Yuichiro Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Z. Laura Tabatabai

Affiliation Department of Pathology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Yuji Hinoda

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Laboratory Medicine, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Rajvir Dahiya

rdahiya@urology.ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH KU RD. Performed the experiments: HH KU VS ZLT. Analyzed the data: HH KU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH KU VS ZLT YT. Wrote the paper: HH YH RD.