About the Authors

Elton Rexhepaj

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology and Science for Life Laboratory, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Margrét Agnarsdóttir

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology and Science for Life Laboratory, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Julia Bergman

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology and Science for Life Laboratory, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Per-Henrik Edqvist

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology and Science for Life Laboratory, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Michael Bergqvist

Affiliation Section of Oncology, Department of Oncology, Radiology and Clinical Immunology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Mathias Uhlén

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

William M. Gallagher

Affiliations UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, UCD Conway Institute, Dublin, Ireland, OncoMark Limited, NovaUCD, Belfield Innovation Park, Dublin, Ireland

Emma Lundberg

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Fredrik Ponten

fredrik.ponten@igp.uu.se

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology and Science for Life Laboratory, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

Prof. William Gallagher is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer within OncoMark Limited. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors. The other authors have no financial or other interests with regard to the pre-submitted abstract that might be construed as conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ER FP MA. Performed the experiments: JB PHE. Analyzed the data: ER FP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL MU MB WG. Wrote the paper: ER FP.