About the Authors
- Takeshi Chiyomaru
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Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Soichiro Yamamura
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Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Shinichiro Fukuhara
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Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Hideo Hidaka
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Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
- Shahana Majid
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Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Sharanjot Saini
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Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Sumit Arora
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Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Guoren Deng
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Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Varahram Shahryari
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Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Inik Chang
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Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Yuichiro Tanaka
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Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Z. Laura Tabatabai
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Hideki Enokida
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Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
- Naohiko Seki
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Affiliation Department of Functional Genomics, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
- Masayuki Nakagawa
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Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
- Rajvir Dahiya
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* E-mail: rdahiya@urology.ucsf.edu
Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Co-author Rajvir Dahiya 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: TC HE NS MN RD. Performed the experiments: TC SY HH. Analyzed the data: TC HH NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF SM SS SA GD VS IC YT ZLT NS MN. Wrote the paper: TC RD.