About the Authors
- Lei Zhang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Zhang, Hua Xiao, Scott Karlan, Hui Zhou
* E-mail: leizhang@ucla.edu (LZ); dtww@ucla.edu (DTW)
Affiliation School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Hua Xiao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Zhang, Hua Xiao, Scott Karlan, Hui Zhou
Affiliation School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Scott Karlan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Zhang, Hua Xiao, Scott Karlan, Hui Zhou
Affiliation Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Hui Zhou
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Zhang, Hua Xiao, Scott Karlan, Hui Zhou
Affiliation School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Jenny Gross
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Affiliation Women's Cancer Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- David Elashoff
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- David Akin
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Affiliation School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Xinmin Yan
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Affiliation School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- David Chia
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Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Beth Karlan
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Affiliation Women's Cancer Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- David T. Wong
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* E-mail: leizhang@ucla.edu (LZ); dtww@ucla.edu (DTW)
Affiliations School of Dentistry and Dental Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Division of Hematology and Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Division of Head and Neck Surgery/Otolaryngology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
DW is the co-founder of RNAmeTRIX. However RNAmeTRIX is a virtual company and currently has no income nor employs anyone. It does not fund the research at all. If pertinent, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors disclosed no potential conflicts of interests..
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ SK DC BK DTW. Performed the experiments: LZ HX. Analyzed the data: LZ HX HZ DE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK BK JG DA XY. Wrote the paper: LZ.