About the Authors
- Matthew Schwede
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Affiliation Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Dimitrios Spentzos
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Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Stefan Bentink
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Affiliations Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Exosome Diagnostics GmbH, Martinsried, Germany
- Oliver Hofmann
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Affiliation Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Benjamin Haibe-Kains
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Affiliations Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Integrative Systems Biology, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- David Harrington
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Affiliations Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- John Quackenbush
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Affiliations Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Aedín C. Culhane
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* E-mail: aedin@jimmy.harvard.edu
Affiliations Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
SB is an employee of Exosome Diagnostics GmbH; JQ is Exosome Diagnostics Scientific Advisory Board Member and has minimal stock options in the company. Neither this nor any other affiliations alters the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ACC MS DH. Performed the experiments: MS ACC. Analyzed the data: MS ACC SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OH SB BHK JQ. Wrote the paper: MS ACC DS JQ.