About the Authors
- Yuet-Kin Leung
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yuet-Kin Leung, Queeny Kwan-Yi Chan
Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Center for Environmental Genetics, and Cancer Institute, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Queeny Kwan-Yi Chan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yuet-Kin Leung, Queeny Kwan-Yi Chan
Affiliation Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
- Chi-Fai Ng
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
- Fanny Man-Ting Ma
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Affiliation Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
- Ho-Man Tse
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Affiliation Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
- Ka-Fai To
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Affiliations Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, State Key Laboratory in Southern China in Oncology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
- Jodi Maranchie
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Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Shuk-Mei Ho
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* E-mail: hosm@uc.edu (SMH); kmlau@cuhk.edu.hk (KML)
Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, Center for Environmental Genetics, and Cancer Institute, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Cincinnati Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Kin-Mang Lau
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* E-mail: hosm@uc.edu (SMH); kmlau@cuhk.edu.hk (KML)
Affiliations Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, State Key Laboratory in Southern China in Oncology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
Competing Interests
Dr. Jodi Maranchie received the Investigator-Sponsored Study Program of AstraZeneca. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YKL QKYC CFN FMTM HMT KFT JM SMH KML. Performed the experiments: YKL QKYC CFN FMTM HMT. Analyzed the data: YKL QKYC CFN FMTM HMT KFT JM SMH KML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KFT JM SMH KML. Wrote the paper: YKL QKYC JM SMH KML.