About the Authors

Jianchang Yang

Affiliation Division of Laboratory Medicine, Nevada Cancer Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Chong Gao

Affiliation The Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Li Chai

lchai@partners.org (LC) (LC); yma@nvcancer.org (YM) (YM)

Affiliation The Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yupo Ma

lchai@partners.org (LC) (LC); yma@nvcancer.org (YM) (YM)

Affiliation Division of Laboratory Medicine, Nevada Cancer Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JY LC YM. Performed the experiments: JY CG. Analyzed the data: JY CG LC YM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC YM. Wrote the paper: JY LC YM.