About the Authors
- Heather H. Cheng
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Contributed equally to this work with: Heather H. Cheng, Patrick S. Mitchell
Affiliations Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Patrick S. Mitchell
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Contributed equally to this work with: Heather H. Cheng, Patrick S. Mitchell
Current address: Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America; Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Affiliation Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Evan M. Kroh
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Affiliation Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Alexander E. Dowell
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Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Lisly Chéry
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Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Javed Siddiqui
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Affiliations Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Peter S. Nelson
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Affiliations Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Robert L. Vessella
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Affiliations Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Beatrice S. Knudsen
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Current address: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Affiliation Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Arul M. Chinnaiyan
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Affiliations Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Bioinformatics Program, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Kenneth J. Pienta
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Affiliation Departments of Urology, Oncology and Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Colm Morrissey
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Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Muneesh Tewari
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* E-mail: mtewari@fhcrc.org
Affiliations Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Competing Interests
Muneesh Tewari is a named inventor on the pending patent application entitled, “Use of Extracellular RNA to Measure Disease,” #12/993828. H.H.C., P.S.M., E.M.K., A.E.D., L.C., J.S., P.S.N., B.S.K., R.L.V., A.M.C., K.J.P., and C.M. declare no competing interests. The authors confirm that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PSM PSN RLV CM MT. Performed the experiments: PSM EMK AED CM. Analyzed the data: HHC PSM MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AED LC JS PSN RLV BSK AMC KJP CM MT. Wrote the paper: HHC PSM MT.