About the Authors

Jan B. Egan

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Michael T. Barrett

Affiliation Clinical Translational Research Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Mia D. Champion

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America, Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Sumit Middha

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Elizabeth Lenkiewicz

Affiliation Clinical Translational Research Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Lisa Evers

Affiliation Clinical Translational Research Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Princy Francis

Affiliation Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Jessica Schmidt

Affiliation Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Chang-Xin Shi

Affiliation Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Scott Van Wier

Affiliation Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Sandra Badar

Affiliation Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Gregory Ahmann

Affiliation Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

K. Martin Kortuem

Affiliation Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Nicole J. Boczek

Affiliation Mayo Graduate School, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Rafael Fonseca

Affiliations Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America, Division of Hematology/Oncology Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

David W. Craig

Affiliation Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

John D. Carpten

Affiliation Integrated Cancer Genomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Mitesh J. Borad

Affiliations Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America, Division of Hematology/Oncology Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

A. Keith Stewart

stewart.keith@mayo.edu

Affiliations Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America, Division of Hematology/Oncology Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. RF has received a patent for the prognostication of MM based on genetic categorization of the disease. He has received consulting fees from Medtronic, Otsuka, Celgene, Genzyme, BMS, Lilly, Onyx, Binding Site, Millenium and AMGEN. He also has sponsored research from Cylene and Onyx. All other authors have no competing interests to declare. The competing interests statement does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JBE MTB MJB AKS. Performed the experiments: JBE EL LE JS CXS SV SB GA NB PF. Analyzed the data: JBE MTB MDC SM JS KMK RF DWC JDC MJB AKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTB. Wrote the paper: JBE MTB MJB MDC AKS.