About the Authors

Long P. Le

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dora Dias-Santagata

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amanda C. Pawlak

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Arjola K. Cosper

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anh Thu Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

M. Angelica Selim

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

April Deng

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts (UMass) Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nora K. Horick

Affiliation Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

A. John Iafrate

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martin C. Mihm Jr

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mai P. Hoang

mhoang@partners.org

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

DDS and AJI submitted a patent application (pending) for the SNaPshot(r) genotyping methods used in this study, and are consultants for BioReference Laboratories Inc. The remaining authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. 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: LPL DDS MPH. Performed the experiments: LPL DDS ACP AKC ATN MPH. Analyzed the data: LPL DDS ACP AKC ATN MAS AD NH AJI MCM MPH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAS AD MCM MPH. Wrote the paper: LPL MPH.