About the Authors

Cong Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Cong Peng, Yaoyu Chen

Current address: Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yaoyu Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Cong Peng, Yaoyu Chen

Current address: Oncology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yi Shan

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Haojian Zhang

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhiru Guo

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dongguang Li

Affiliation School of Computer and Security Science, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, Western Australia, Australia

Shaoguang Li

shaoguang.li@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CP YC YS HZ ZG DL SL. Performed the experiments: CP YC YS HZ ZG SL. Analyzed the data: CP YC YS HZ ZG DL SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL. Wrote the paper: SL.