About the Authors

Patrick M. Loerch

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick M. Loerch, Tao Lu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tao Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick M. Loerch, Tao Lu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kelly A. Dakin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James M. Vann

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Medical Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Adrian Isaacs

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chengiz Geula

Affiliation Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jianbin Wang

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ying Pan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dana H. Gabuzda

Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cheng Li

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tomas A. Prolla

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Medical Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Bruce A. Yankner

bruce_yankner@hms.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL BAY. Performed the experiments: TL KAD JMV AMI YP. Analyzed the data: PML TL CL BAY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMV AMI CG JW DG TAP. Wrote the paper: PML BAY.