About the Authors
- Gunjan Srivastava
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Affiliation Alex and Simona Shnaider Research Laboratory in Molecular Oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
- Raj Thani Somasundaram
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Affiliation Alex and Simona Shnaider Research Laboratory in Molecular Oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
- Paul G. Walfish
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Affiliations Alex and Simona Shnaider Research Laboratory in Molecular Oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Joseph and Mildred Sonshine Family Centre for Head and Neck Diseases, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Department of Medicine, Endocrine Division, Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Ranju Ralhan
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* E-mail: rralhan@mtsinai.on.ca
Affiliations Alex and Simona Shnaider Research Laboratory in Molecular Oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Joseph and Mildred Sonshine Family Centre for Head and Neck Diseases, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Competing Interests
PGW and RR are shareholders in Proteocyte Diagnostics Inc. Additionally, financial support of this work was provided by Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Irvine, CA). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: RR. Performed the experiments: GS RS. Analyzed the data: GS RR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PGW RR. Wrote the paper: GS RS RR.