About the Authors

Yadav Sapkota

Affiliations Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Sunita Ghosh

Affiliations Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Raymond Lai

Affiliations Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Bradley P. Coe

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Carol E. Cass

Affiliations Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Yutaka Yasui

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

John R. Mackey

Affiliations Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Sambasivarao Damaraju

Sambasivarao.Damaraju@albertahealthservices.ca

Affiliations Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Offered critical reading of manuscript and constructive suggestions: CEC JRM YY RL. Offered medical oncology perspectives: JRM. Conceived and directed the project: SD. Conceived and designed the experiments: SD. Performed the experiments: YS. Analyzed the data: YS SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BPC YS SG YY. Wrote the paper: SD YS.