About the Authors

Shelly Beer

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Sciences Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Division of Oncology, School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Sciences Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Kimberly Komatsubara

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Sciences Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Division of Oncology, School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Sciences Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

David I. Bellovin

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Sciences Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Division of Oncology, School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Sciences Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Masashi Kurobe

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Karl Sylvester

Contributed equally to this work with: Karl Sylvester, Dean W. Felsher

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Dean W. Felsher

Contributed equally to this work with: Karl Sylvester, Dean W. Felsher

dfelsher@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Sciences Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Division of Oncology, School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Sciences Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB DF MK KS. Performed the experiments: SB KK. Analyzed the data: SB DF KK DB KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK. Wrote the paper: SB DF DB.