About the Authors

Chad J. Creighton

Contributed equally to this work with: Chad J. Creighton, Anadulce Hernandez-Herrera, Anders Jacobsen

creighto@bcm.edu (CJC); phgunaratne@uh.edu (PHG)

Affiliations Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America , Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anadulce Hernandez-Herrera

Contributed equally to this work with: Chad J. Creighton, Anadulce Hernandez-Herrera, Anders Jacobsen

Affiliation Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anders Jacobsen

Contributed equally to this work with: Chad J. Creighton, Anadulce Hernandez-Herrera, Anders Jacobsen

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Douglas A. Levine

Affiliation Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Parminder Mankoo

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Nikolaus Schultz

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Ying Du

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Yiqun Zhang

Affiliation Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Erik Larsson

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert Sheridan

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Weimin Xiao

Affiliation Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Paul T. Spellman

Affiliation Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Gad Getz

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

David A. Wheeler

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Charles M. Perou

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Richard A. Gibbs

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chris Sander

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

D. Neil Hayes

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Preethi H. Gunaratne

creighto@bcm.edu (CJC); phgunaratne@uh.edu (PHG)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network

Competing Interests

CJC serves as an Academic Editor for PLoS ONE. 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: CJC AH AJ DAL PM NS CS DNH PHG. Performed the experiments: AH YD DNH PHG. Analyzed the data: CJC AH AJ DAL PM NS CS DNH PHG YD YZ EL RS WX PTS GG DAW CMP RAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH YD DNH PHG EL RS CS NS AJ CMP. Wrote the paper: CJC AH AJ DAL PM NS CS DNH PHG.