About the Authors

Yalai Bai

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Huan Cheng

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jennifer Bordeaux

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Veronique Neumeister

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Sudha Kumar

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

David L. Rimm

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

David F. Stern

DF.Stern@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr Rimm is a consultant for Genoptix/Novartis, the exclusive licensee to the Yale owned AQUA technology. Dr. Stern is a partial owner of Phosphoproteomics LLC, which holds intellectual property in phosphorylation-based diagnostics, and he receives royalties for sales of antibody PN2A. 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: YB DLR DFS. Performed the experiments: YB JB VN. Analyzed the data: YB HC SK VN. Wrote the paper: YB DLR DFS.