About the Authors

Yong He

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong He, Zhen Zhou

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Zhen Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong He, Zhen Zhou

Affiliations Shanghai Lung Tumor Clinic Medical Center, Shanghai Chest Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wayne L. Hofstetter

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yanbin Zhou

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wenxian Hu

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chengcheng Guo

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Li Wang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wei Guo

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Apar Pataer

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Arlene M. Correa

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yiling Lu

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

Jing Wang

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computation Biology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lixia Diao

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computation Biology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lauren Averett Byers

Affiliation Departments of Thoracic and Head and Neck Medical Oncology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ignacio I. Wistuba

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

Jack A. Roth

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Stephen G. Swisher

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John V. Heymach

jheymach@mdanderson.org (JVH); bfang@mdanderson.org (BF)

Affiliation Departments of Thoracic and Head and Neck Medical Oncology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bingliang Fang

jheymach@mdanderson.org (JVH); bfang@mdanderson.org (BF)

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 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: YH ZZ WLH JAR SGS JVH BF. Performed the experiments: YH ZZ YZ WH LW WG YL CG. Analyzed the data: AP AMC JW LD LAB IIW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMC JW LD . Wrote the paper: YH ZZ BF.