About the Authors
- Shang Guo
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Affiliations Center for Sarcoma and Connective Tissue Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- Hector Lopez-Marquez
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Affiliation Translational Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kenneth C. Fan
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Affiliation Translational Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Edwin Choy
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Affiliation Center for Sarcoma and Connective Tissue Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Gregory Cote
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Affiliation Center for Sarcoma and Connective Tissue Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- David Harmon
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Affiliation Center for Sarcoma and Connective Tissue Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- G. Petur Nielsen
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Cao Yang
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Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Union Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- Changqing Zhang
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Affiliation Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- Henry Mankin
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Affiliation Center for Sarcoma and Connective Tissue Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Francis J. Hornicek
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Affiliation Center for Sarcoma and Connective Tissue Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Darrell R. Borger
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Affiliation Translational Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Zhenfeng Duan
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* E-mail: zduan@mgh.harvard.edu
Affiliation Center for Sarcoma and Connective Tissue Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: DRB is a paid consultant for Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc (licensee of SNaPshot). All other authors declare no conflicts of interest. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FJH DRB ZD. Performed the experiments: SG HLM KCF. Analyzed the data: SG HLM KCF EC GC DH GPN CY CZ HM FJH DRB ZD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GPN CY HM FJH DRB ZD. Wrote the paper: SG HLM KCF EC GC DH GPN CY CZ HM FJH DRB ZD.