About the Authors

Men Long Liong

Affiliation Lam Wah Ee Hospital, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia

Chun Ren Lim

Affiliation GeneNews (Malaysia), Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital, Penang, Malaysia

Hengxuan Yang

Affiliation GeneNews Ltd, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Samuel Chao

Affiliation GeneNews Ltd, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Chin Wei Bong

Affiliation GeneNews (Malaysia), Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital, Penang, Malaysia

Wing Seng Leong

Affiliation Lam Wah Ee Hospital, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia

Prashanta Kumar Das

Affiliation Lam Wah Ee Hospital, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia

Chit Sin Loh

Affiliation Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ban Eng Lau

Affiliation Loh Guan Lye Hospital, Penang, Malaysia

Choon Geok Yu

Affiliation GeneNews (Malaysia), Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital, Penang, Malaysia

Edie Jian Jiek Ooi

Affiliation GeneNews (Malaysia), Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital, Penang, Malaysia

Robert K. Nam

Affiliation Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Paul D. Allen

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Graeme S. Steele

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karl Wassmann

Affiliation GeneNews Ltd, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Jerome P. Richie

jrichie@partners.org

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Choong Chin Liew

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.