About the Authors
- Men Long Liong
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Affiliation Lam Wah Ee Hospital, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia
- Chun Ren Lim
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Affiliation GeneNews (Malaysia), Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital, Penang, Malaysia
- Hengxuan Yang
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Affiliation GeneNews Ltd, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
- Samuel Chao
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Affiliation GeneNews Ltd, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
- Chin Wei Bong
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Affiliation GeneNews (Malaysia), Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital, Penang, Malaysia
- Wing Seng Leong
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Affiliation Lam Wah Ee Hospital, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia
- Prashanta Kumar Das
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Affiliation Lam Wah Ee Hospital, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia
- Chit Sin Loh
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Affiliation Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Ban Eng Lau
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Affiliation Loh Guan Lye Hospital, Penang, Malaysia
- Choon Geok Yu
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Affiliation GeneNews (Malaysia), Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital, Penang, Malaysia
- Edie Jian Jiek Ooi
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Affiliation GeneNews (Malaysia), Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital, Penang, Malaysia
- Robert K. Nam
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Affiliation Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Paul D. Allen
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Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Graeme S. Steele
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Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Karl Wassmann
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Affiliation GeneNews Ltd, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
- Jerome P. Richie
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* E-mail: jrichie@partners.org
Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Choong Chin Liew
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Affiliations GeneNews Ltd, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Chun Ren Lim, Hengxuan Yang, Samuel Chao, Chun Wei Bong, Choon Gook Yu, Edie JJ Ooi, Karl Wassmann and Choong Chin Liew are employees of GeneNews Ltd, who sponsored this research. Choong Chin Liew is chief scientist of GeneNews and holds stock in the company. None of the other authors has any competing interests. There are no patents, 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: CRL HY SC CCL. Performed the experiments: CRL HY EJJO. Analyzed the data: HY SC CRL CWB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PKD CSL BEL CGY RKN PDA GSS JPR CCL. Wrote the paper: MLL CRL HY SC WSL PKD PDA GSS KW JKR CCL.