About the Authors

Dong-Joo Cheon

Affiliations Program in Genes and Development, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ying Wang

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jian Min Deng

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Zhen Lu

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lianchun Xiao

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chun-Ming Chen

Current address: Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Affiliation Program in Genes and Development, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Robert C. Bast Jr.

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Richard R. Behringer

rrb@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Program in Genes and Development, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DJC RRB. Performed the experiments: DJC YW. Analyzed the data: DJC LX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMD ZL CMC RCBJ. Wrote the paper: DJC RRB.