About the Authors

Sierra M. Li

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Zuzana Valo

Affiliation Division of Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Jinhui Wang

Affiliation Division of Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Hanlin Gao

Affiliation Division of Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Chauncey W. Bowers

Affiliation Division of Computational Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Judith Singer-Sam

jsam@coh.org

Affiliation Division of Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SML JSS. Performed the experiments: ZV JW. Analyzed the data: SML CWB JSS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW HG. Wrote the paper: SML JSS.