About the Authors

Yan Ding

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Garrett Larson

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Guillermo Rivas

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Cathryn Lundberg

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Louis Geller

Current address: Human genetics, Focus Diagnostics, Inc., Cypress, California, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Ching Ouyang

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Jeffrey Weitzel

Affiliation Department of Cancer Genetics, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

John Archambeau

Affiliation Department of Radiation Medicine, Loma Linda School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Jerry Slater

Affiliation Department of Radiation Medicine, Loma Linda School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Mary B. Daly

Affiliation Department of Population Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Al B. Benson

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Robert J. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

John M. Kirkwood

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Peter J. O'Dwyer

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rebecca Sutphen

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Oncology Program, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

James A. Stewart

Affiliation University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

David Johnson

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Magnus Nordborg

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Theodore G. Krontiris

tkrontir@coh.org

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The funders had no role in data analysis, writing, or publication decisions.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YD JW JA JS MBD AB JK PJO RS JS DJ TGK. Performed the experiments: GL GR CL LG. Analyzed the data: YD GL GR CL LG CO MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW JA JS MBD AB JK PJO RS JS DJ TGK. Wrote the paper: YD GL MN TGK.