About the Authors

Virginia Espina

vespina@gmu.edu

Affiliation Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Brian D. Mariani

Affiliation AGTCenter of Genetics & IVF Institute, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

Rosa I. Gallagher

Affiliation Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Khoa Tran

Affiliation AGTCenter of Genetics & IVF Institute, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

Stacey Banks

Affiliation Cancer Translational Research Center, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Joy Wiedemann

Affiliation Cancer Translational Research Center, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Heather Huryk

Affiliation Cancer Translational Research Center, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Claudius Mueller

Affiliation Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Luana Adamo

Affiliations Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Istituto Oncologico del Mediterraneo, Viagrande, Catania, Italy

Jianghong Deng

Affiliation Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Emanuel F. Petricoin III

Affiliation Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Lucia Pastore

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Syed Zaman

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Geetha Menezes

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

James Mize

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Jasbir Johal

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Kirsten Edmiston

Affiliation Cancer Translational Research Center, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Lance A. Liotta

Affiliation Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VE LL. Performed the experiments: VE BM RIG KT CM LL. Analyzed the data: VE BM JD LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KT SB JW HH CM LA EPI LP SZ GM JM JJ KHE. Wrote the paper: VE BM RIG LL.