About the Authors

Pascal Gelebart

Contributed equally to this work with: Pascal Gelebart, Zoulika Zak

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta and Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Zoulika Zak

Contributed equally to this work with: Pascal Gelebart, Zoulika Zak

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta and Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Mona Anand

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta and Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Andrew Belch

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Alberta and Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Raymond Lai

rlai@ualberta.ca

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta and Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta and Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

RL is an employee of DynalifeDx. 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: PG ZZ RL. Performed the experiments: PG ZZ MA. Analyzed the data: PG ZZ MA RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB. Wrote the paper: PG RL.