About the Authors
- Qiang Zhang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Zhang, Lin Chen
* E-mail: q-zhang2@northwestern.edu
Affiliations Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Lin Chen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Zhang, Lin Chen
Affiliation Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Brian T. Helfand
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Affiliation Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Thomas L. Jang
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Affiliation The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
- Vidit Sharma
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Affiliation Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- James Kozlowski
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Affiliations Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Timothy Michael Kuzel
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Lihua J. Zhu
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Affiliation Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ximing J. Yang
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Affiliations Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Borko Javonovic
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Affiliations Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Yinglu Guo
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Affiliation Institute of Urology, Department of Urology, The First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Scott Lonning
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Affiliation The Genzyme Corporation, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jay Harper
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Affiliation The Genzyme Corporation, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Beverly A. Teicher
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Affiliation The Genzyme Corporation, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Charles Brendler
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Northshore University Heathsystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
- Nengwang Yu
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Affiliation Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- William J. Catalona
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Affiliations Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Chung Lee
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Affiliations Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Competing Interests
SL, JH and BT are employees of Genzyme. There are no patents or products in development to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: QZ LC BH CL. Performed the experiments: QZ LC BH CL. Analyzed the data: QZ LC BH CL TJ JK BJ XY NY YG TK CB SL JH BT WC LZ VS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ LC BH CL TJ JK BJ XY NY YG TK CB SL JH BT WC LZ VS. Wrote the paper: QZ LC CL BH TJ.