About the Authors

Rosa H. Jimenez

Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa H. Jimenez, Joan M. Boylan

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Joan M. Boylan

Contributed equally to this work with: Rosa H. Jimenez, Joan M. Boylan

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Ju-Seog Lee

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Division of Cancer Medicine, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mirko Francesconi

Affiliation Interdepartmental Center “L. Galvani,” University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Gastone Castellani

Affiliation Interdepartmental Center “L. Galvani,” University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Jennifer A. Sanders

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Philip A. Gruppuso

Philip_Gruppuso@brown.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RHJ JMB MF GC JAS PAG. Performed the experiments: RHJ JMB JAS. Analyzed the data: RHJ JMB JSL MF GC PAG. Wrote the paper: RHJ JMB JAS PAG.