About the Authors

Vera Huang

Affiliations Helen-Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yi Qin

Affiliations Helen-Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ji Wang

Affiliations Helen-Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Xiaoling Wang

Affiliations Helen-Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Robert F. Place

Affiliations Helen-Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Guiting Lin

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Tom F. Lue

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Long-Cheng Li

lilc@urology.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Helen-Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL LCL. Performed the experiments: VH YQ JW XW RFP GL LCL. Analyzed the data: VH YQ GL LCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL TFL. Wrote the paper: VH RFP TFL LCL.