About the Authors

Jun Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Yu, Kimberly Walter

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kimberly Walter

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Yu, Kimberly Walter

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Noriyuki Omura

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Seung-Mo Hong

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Angela Young

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ang Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Audrey Vincent

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Michael Goggins

mgoggins@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG KW JY. Performed the experiments: KW JY AV AY SMH AL NO. Analyzed the data: KW JY MG AV SMH NO AL. Wrote the paper: KW MG JY.