About the Authors

Matthew D. Wilkerson

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

Xiaoying Yin

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

Vonn Walter

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ni Zhao

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher R. Cabanski

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Michele C. Hayward

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

C. Ryan Miller

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Mark A. Socinski

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Alden M. Parsons

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Leigh B. Thorne

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Benjamin E. Haithcock

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Nirmal K. Veeramachaneni

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

William K. Funkhouser

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Scott H. Randell

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Philip S. Bernard

Affiliation Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Charles M. Perou

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

D. Neil Hayes

hayes@med.unc.edu

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

Competing Interests

DNH and CMP have a provisional patent, stock ownership, and advisory board position (DNH) in GeneCentric Diagnostics that is related in subject-area to this manuscript. (U.S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 60/941,520 (UNC Ref. No. ODT 07-0108; A&B Ref. 035052/329655). Molecular Diagnosis and Typing of Lung Cancer Variants. Conversion in process). 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: MDW DNH. Performed the experiments: XY MDW VW NZ CRC CRM WKF DNH. Analyzed the data: MDW XY VW NZ CRC MCH CRM WKF SHR PSB CMP DNH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAS AMP LBT BET NKV SHR PSB CMP DNH. Wrote the paper: MDW XY VW NZ CRC MCH CRM MAS AMP LBT BEH NKV WKF SHR PSB CMP DNH.