About the Authors

Hua Zhao

hua.zhao@roswellpark.org (HZ); song.liu@roswellpark.org (SL)

Affiliation Department of Cancer Prevention and Controls, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Jie Shen

Affiliation Department of Cancer Prevention and Controls, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Leonard Medico

Affiliation Department of Cancer Prevention and Controls, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Dan Wang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Christine B. Ambrosone

Affiliation Department of Cancer Prevention and Controls, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Song Liu

hua.zhao@roswellpark.org (HZ); song.liu@roswellpark.org (SL)

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ CBA SL. Performed the experiments: JS LM. Analyzed the data: DW SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL. Wrote the paper: HZ JS SL.