About the Authors

Soma Ghosh

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

M. Zulfiquer Hossain

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Michael Borges

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Michael G. Goggins

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Roxann G. Ingersoll

Affiliation Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

James R. Eshleman

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Alison P. Klein

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Scott E. Kern

sk@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG RGI JRE APK SEK. Performed the experiments: SG MZH RGI. Analyzed the data: SG RGI JRE APK SEK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB MGG RGI JRE APK. Wrote the paper: SG APK SEK.