About the Authors

Zannel Blanchard

Affiliations Cancer Institute, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Nicole Mullins

Affiliation Cancer Institute, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Pavani Ellipeddi

Affiliation Cancer Institute, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Janice M. Lage

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Shawn McKinney

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Rana El-Etriby

Affiliation Cancer Institute, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Xu Zhang

Affiliation Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Raphael Isokpehi

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Brenda Hernandez

Affiliation Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Wael M. ElShamy

welshamy@umc.edu

Affiliations Cancer Institute, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WES. Performed the experiments: ZB NM RE PE. Analyzed the data: XZ BH RI JL SM WES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL SM BH. Wrote the paper: WES.