About the Authors

Hui Li

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Natalie Lui

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Tiffany Cheng

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hsin-Hui K. Tseng

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Dongsheng Yue

Affiliations Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Lung Cancer, Lung Cancer Center, TianJin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, P.R.China

Etienne Giroux-Leprieur

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hanh T. Do

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Qing Sheng

Affiliations Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, P.R.China

Joy Q. Jin

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Thomas W. Luh

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

David M. Jablons

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Biao He

biao.he@ucsfmedctr.org

Affiliation Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, 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: HL NL BH DMJ. Performed the experiments: HL NL HTD DY TC HKT EGL QS JJ TL DY. Analyzed the data: HL NL BH DMJ. Wrote the paper: HL BH DMJ.