About the Authors

Mohd Saif Zaman

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

Varahram Shahryari

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

Sobha Thamminana

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

Sharonjot 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

Inik Chang

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

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

Kamaldeep Singh

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

Yuichiro Tanaka

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

Z. Laura Tabatabai

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: MSZ RD. Performed the experiments: MSZ VS GD ST SS SM HH. Analyzed the data: MSZ VS GD ZLT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IC KU SY KS YT. Wrote the paper: MSZ.