About the Authors
- David J. DeGraff
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* E-mail: david.degraff@vanderbilt.edu
Affiliation Department of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Peter E. Clark
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Affiliation Department of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Justin M. Cates
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Hironobu Yamashita
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Affiliation Department of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Victoria L. Robinson
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Xiuping Yu
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Affiliation Department of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Mark E. Smolkin
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Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Sam S. Chang
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Affiliation Department of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Michael S. Cookson
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Affiliation Department of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Mary K. Herrick
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Affiliation Department of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Shahrokh F. Shariat
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Affiliation Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America
- Gary D. Steinberg
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Henry F. Frierson
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Xue-Ru Wu
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Affiliation Deparments of Urology and Pathology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Dan Theodorescu
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Affiliation University of Colorado Comprehensive Cancer Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Robert J. Matusik
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Affiliations Department of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Competing Interests
DJD, PEC, JMC, SFS, HFF, DT, and RJM have filed an invention disclosure with Vanderbilt University for the use of FOXA1 as a diagnostic and/or prognostic marker for bladder cancer. There are no further products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: DJD PEC SSC MSC HFF XW DT RJM. Performed the experiments: DJD JMC HY VLR XY MKH. Analyzed the data: DJD JMC MES SFS HFF XW DT RJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJD PEC VLR GDS HFF XW DT RJM. Wrote the paper: DJD PEC JMC VLR MES HFF XW DT RJM.