About the Authors

Jianhui Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianhui Guo, Tolga Cagatay, Guangjin Zhou

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center/Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Tolga Cagatay

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianhui Guo, Tolga Cagatay, Guangjin Zhou

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology, and Department of Molecular Biology, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Guangjin Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianhui Guo, Tolga Cagatay, Guangjin Zhou

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic/Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Chih-Chiang Chan

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology, and Department of Molecular Biology, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Shelby Blythe

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kaye Suyama

Affiliations Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Li Zheng

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic/Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Kaifeng Pan

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic/Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Chiping Qian

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center/Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic/Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Richard Hamelin

Affiliation INSERM U938 Equipe Microsatellites et Cancers, Paris, France

Stephen N. Thibodeau

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic/Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Peter S. Klein

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Keith A. Wharton Jr

kwhartonjr@gmail.com (KAW); wliu2@lsuhsc.edu (WL)

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology, and Department of Molecular Biology, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Wanguo Liu

kwhartonjr@gmail.com (KAW); wliu2@lsuhsc.edu (WL)

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center/Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic/Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC CCC PSK KAWJ WL. Performed the experiments: JG TC GZ CCC SAB KS LZ KP CQ PSK KAWJ WL. Analyzed the data: JG TC GZ CCC SAB PSK KAWJ WL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RH ST WL. Wrote the paper: KAWJ WL.