About the Authors

Sameer Malhotra

Contributed equally to this work with: Sameer Malhotra, Jacques Lapointe, Keyan Salari

Affiliation Department of Urology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jacques Lapointe

Contributed equally to this work with: Sameer Malhotra, Jacques Lapointe, Keyan Salari

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Urology Division, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Keyan Salari

Contributed equally to this work with: Sameer Malhotra, Jacques Lapointe, Keyan Salari

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

John P. Higgins

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Michelle Ferrari

Affiliation Department of Urology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Kelli Montgomery

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Matt van de Rijn

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

James D. Brooks

jdbrooks@stanford.edu (JDB); pollack1@stanford.edu (JRP)

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Urology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jonathan R. Pollack

jdbrooks@stanford.edu (JDB); pollack1@stanford.edu (JRP)

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM JL KS JDB JRP. Performed the experiments: SM JL. Analyzed the data: SM JL JPH KS JRP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF KM MvdR JDB. Wrote the paper: SM JL KS JDB JRP.