About the Authors

Shun Liang

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

Nuo Yang

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

Yue Pan

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

Shan Deng

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

Xiaojuan Lin

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

Xiaojun Yang

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

Dionyssios Katsaros

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

Katherine F. Roby

Affiliation Center for Reproductive Sciences, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Thomas C. Hamilton

Affiliation Ovarian Cancer Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Denise C. Connolly

Affiliation Ovarian Cancer Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

George Coukos

Affiliations Center for Research on the 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

linzhang@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliations Center for Research on the 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: GC LZ. Performed the experiments: LS NY YP SD XL XY LZ. Analyzed the data: LS LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK KR TH DC. Wrote the paper: GC LZ.