About the Authors

Fei Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Gu, Mark S. Doderer

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine/Institute of Biotechnology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Cancer Therapy & Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Mark S. Doderer

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Gu, Mark S. Doderer

Affiliation Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Yi-Wen Huang

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Juan C. Roa

Affiliation Departamento de Pathología, Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Fono, Chile

Paul J. Goodfellow

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine and Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

E. Lynette Kizer

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Tim H. M. Huang

cheny8@uthscsa.edu (YC); huangt3@uthscsa.edu (THMH)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine/Institute of Biotechnology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Cancer Therapy & Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Yidong Chen

cheny8@uthscsa.edu (YC); huangt3@uthscsa.edu (THMH)

Affiliations Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Cancer Therapy & Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FG MSD THMH YC. Performed the experiments: FG MSD ELK YC. Analyzed the data: FG MSD YC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YWH JCR PJG THMH. Wrote the paper: FG MSD YC.