About the Authors

Kaori Shima

Contributed equally to this work with: Kaori Shima, Teppei Morikawa, Mai Yamauchi

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Teppei Morikawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Kaori Shima, Teppei Morikawa, Mai Yamauchi

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mai Yamauchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Kaori Shima, Teppei Morikawa, Mai Yamauchi

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aya Kuchiba

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yu Imamura

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xiaoyun Liao

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Charles S. Fuchs

Affiliations Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shuji Ogino

shuji_ogino@dfci.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SO. Performed the experiments: KS TM MY YI XL JAM CSF SO. Analyzed the data: KS TM AK JAM CSF SO. Wrote the paper: KS TM MY SO.