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PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
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ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
6
June
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 6
Electronic Location Identifier: e0179170
Affiliations
[1
]Western Regional Medical Center, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Goodyear, Arizona,
United States of America
[2
]Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, ITALY
Author notes
Competing Interests: TGW holds patents (US Patent No.9,404,927 B2) and provisional patents (US Provisional
Patent Application no. PCT/US2015/062785)-unrelated to this work and SAB holds patents
(US Patent No. 9,140,689) or provisional patents (US Provisional Patent Application
no. PCT/US2016/037292)-unrelated to this work. This does not alter our adherence to
PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
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Conceptualization: GJW JDC DWC.
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Data curation: GJW SAB JA AS HB TGW.
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Formal analysis: GJW SAB JK JA JDC DWC TGW.
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Funding acquisition: GJW JDC DWC.
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Investigation: GJW SAB JA AS HB JK JDC DWC TGW.
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Methodology: GJW SAB JA JK JDC DWC TGW.
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Project administration: GJW DWC TGW.
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Resources: GJW SAB JA AS HB JK JDC DWC TGW.
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Supervision: GJW DWC TGW.
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Validation: GJW SAB JA JK JDC DWC TGW.
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Visualization: GJW SAB JA JDC DWC TGW.
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Writing – original draft: GJW SAB JA JK JDC DWC TGW.
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Writing – review & editing: GJW SAB JA AS HB JK JDC DWC TGW.
[¤a]
Current address: Systems Oncology, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
[¤b]
Current address: Department of Translational Genomics, Keck School of Medicine, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United Stated of America
[¤c]
Current address: Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center,
Dignity Health, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
‡ DWC and TGW are Joint Senior Authors.
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Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-08076
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179170
PMC ID: 5460863
PubMed ID: 28586388
SO-VID: 7f761ec3-7df6-4d63-9b2b-db01636b5180
Copyright © © 2017 Weiss et al
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Funded by: Stand Up 2 Cancer
This work was supported by Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C). The funder had no role in study
design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
One or more of the authors received consulting fees from a commercial company: Blend
Therapeutics, Pharmatech, Viomics, and Paradigm; speakers' bureau: Medscape, Merck,
Novartis; Travel: NantWorks, Arbutus Biopharma and GE Global Research, Dell Inc.,
and Strategia Therapeutics, Inc. These funders provided support in the form of salaries
for authors [GJW, TGW, SAB], but did not have any additional role in the study design,
data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’
section.
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Oncology
Subject:
Cancers and Neoplasms
Subject:
Lung and Intrathoracic Tumors
Subject:
Small Cell Lung Cancer
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Oncology
Subject:
Cancer Treatment
Subject:
Biology and life sciences
Subject:
Molecular biology
Subject:
Molecular biology techniques
Subject:
Sequencing techniques
Subject:
DNA sequencing
Subject:
Next-Generation Sequencing
Subject:
Research and analysis methods
Subject:
Molecular biology techniques
Subject:
Sequencing techniques
Subject:
DNA sequencing
Subject:
Next-Generation Sequencing
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Computational Biology
Subject:
Genome Analysis
Subject:
Transcriptome Analysis
Subject:
Next-Generation Sequencing
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Genetics
Subject:
Genomics
Subject:
Genome Analysis
Subject:
Transcriptome Analysis
Subject:
Next-Generation Sequencing
Subject:
Biology and life sciences
Subject:
Molecular biology
Subject:
Molecular biology techniques
Subject:
Sequencing techniques
Subject:
RNA sequencing
Subject:
Research and analysis methods
Subject:
Molecular biology techniques
Subject:
Sequencing techniques
Subject:
RNA sequencing
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Immunology
Subject:
Immune Response
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Immunology
Subject:
Immune Response
Subject:
Research and Analysis Methods
Subject:
Research Design
Subject:
Pilot Studies
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Surgical and Invasive Medical Procedures
Subject:
Biopsy
Subject:
Research and Analysis Methods
Subject:
Database and Informatics Methods
Subject:
Bioinformatics
Subject:
Sequence Analysis
Subject:
Sequence Alignment
