About the Authors

Alessio Giubellino

giubella@mail.nih.gov (AG); karel@mail.nih.gov (KP)

Affiliation Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Uma Shankavaram

Affiliation Radiation Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Petra Bullova

Affiliations Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Jan Schovanek

Affiliations Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine III – Nephrology, Rheumatology and Endocrinology, University Hospital of Olomouc, Czech Republic

Yaqin Zhang

Affiliation National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Min Shen

Affiliation National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Nikita Patel

Affiliation Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Abdel Elkahloun

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Min-Jung Lee

Affiliation Medical Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jane Trepel

Affiliation Medical Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Marc Ferrer

Affiliation National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Karel Pacak

giubella@mail.nih.gov (AG); karel@mail.nih.gov (KP)

Affiliation Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG US YZ MS AE JT MF KP. Performed the experiments: AG US PB JS YZ MS NP AE ML. Analyzed the data: AG US PB JS YZ MS NP AE ML JT MF KP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: US AE JT MF KP. Wrote the paper: AG US JS JT MF KP.