About the Authors

Ligong Chen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Ralph D. Sanderson

sanderson@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Center for Metabolic Bone Disease and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC RS. Performed the experiments: LC. Analyzed the data: LC RS. Wrote the paper: LC RS.