About the Authors

Mohd Saif Zaman

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sobha Thamminana

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Varahram Shahryari

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Takeshi Chiyomaru

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Guoren Deng

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sharanjot Saini

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shahana Majid

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shinichiro Fukuhara

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Inik Chang

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sumit Arora

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hiroshi Hirata

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Koji Ueno

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kamaldeep Singh

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yuichiro Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Rajvir Dahiya

rdahiya@urology.ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSZ GD RD. Performed the experiments: MSZ ST VS GD TC. Analyzed the data: MSZ GD SS SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSZ SF IC SA HH KU KS YT. Wrote the paper: MSZ.