About the Authors

Jun S. Wei

weij@mail.nih.gov; khanjav@mail.nih.gov (JK)

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter Johansson

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Li Chen

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Young K. Song

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Catherine Tolman

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Samuel Li

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Laura Hurd

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rajesh Patidar

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xinyu Wen

Affiliations Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Advanced Biomedical Computing Center, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas C. Badgett

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Adam T. C. Cheuk

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jean-Claude Marshall

Affiliation Women’s Cancers Section, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Patricia S. Steeg

Affiliation Women’s Cancers Section, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

José P. Vaqué Díez

Affiliation Cell Growth Regulation Section, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yanlin Yu

Affiliation Cancer Modeling Section, Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

J. Silvio Gutkind

Affiliation Cell Growth Regulation Section, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Javed Khan

weij@mail.nih.gov; khanjav@mail.nih.gov (JK)

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: Co-author Xinyu Wen is employed by FAIC-Frederick Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and material.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSW JSG JK. Performed the experiments: YKS CT SL LH TCB ATCC JCM JPVD YY. Analyzed the data: JSW PJ LC RP XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PJ LC JCM PSS JPVD JSG. Wrote the manuscript: JSW PJ JK.