About the Authors

Soichiro Yamamura

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sharanjot Saini

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shahana Majid

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hiroshi Hirata

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Koji Ueno

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Guoren Deng

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Rajvir Dahiya

rdahiya@urology.ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SY RD. Performed the experiments: SY SS SM. Analyzed the data: SY SS SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH KU GD. Wrote the paper: SY RD.