About the Authors

Qiang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Zhang, Lin Chen

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

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

Affiliation Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Thomas L. Jang

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

Affiliation Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

James Kozlowski

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lihua J. Zhu

Affiliation Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ximing J. Yang

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

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

Affiliation Institute of Urology, Department of Urology, The First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China

Scott Lonning

Affiliation The Genzyme Corporation, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jay Harper

Affiliation The Genzyme Corporation, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Beverly A. Teicher

Affiliation The Genzyme Corporation, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Charles Brendler

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Northshore University Heathsystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Nengwang Yu

Affiliation Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

William J. Catalona

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

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.