About the Authors

Nuo Yang

Affiliation Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jia Huang

Affiliation Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joel Greshock

Affiliations Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Translational Medicine and Genetics at GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shun Liang

Affiliation Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Andrea Barchetti

Affiliation Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kosei Hasegawa

Affiliation Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sarah Kim

Affiliation Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Antonis Giannakakis

Affiliations Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Laboratory of Gene Expression, Modern Diagnostic and Therapeutic Methods, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Chunsheng Li

Affiliation Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Anne O'Brien-Jenkins

Affiliation Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dionyssios Katsaros

Affiliation Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Ralf Bützow

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Gynecology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

George Coukos

Affiliations Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lin Zhang

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: linzhang@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliations Center for Research on Early Detection and Cure of Ovarian Cancer, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ GC. Performed the experiments: LZ NY JH Sl CL AO AB. Analyzed the data: SK LZ NY AG JG KH JH GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK RB. Wrote the paper: LZ NY GC.