About the Authors

You Me Sung

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Xuehua Xu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Junfeng Sun

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Duane Mueller

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Kinza Sentissi

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Peter Johnson

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Elana Urbach

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Michael D. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Susette C. Mueller

muellers@georgetown.edu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FSM MDJ SCM. Performed the experiments: YMS XX PJ EU SCM. Analyzed the data: YMS JS DM KS EU FSM SCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS DM. Wrote the paper: SCM.