About the Authors

Andrew H. Beck

abeck2@bidmc.harvard.edu (AHB); bhaibeka@ircm.qc.ca (BHK)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicholas W. Knoblauch

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marco M. Hefti

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jennifer Kaplan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stuart J. Schnitt

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aedin C. Culhane

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

Markus S. Schroeder

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

Thomas Risch

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

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

Benjamin Haibe-Kains

abeck2@bidmc.harvard.edu (AHB); bhaibeka@ircm.qc.ca (BHK)

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics Laboratory, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AHB BHK. Performed the experiments: AHB BHK. Analyzed the data: AHB BHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AHB NWK MMH JK SJS ACC MSS TR BHK. Wrote the paper: AHB JQ BHK.