About the Authors

Jing Jie Yu

jyu@hsc.wvu.edu

Affiliation Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and Molecular Medicine Core Facility, Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Pingfu Fu

Affiliation Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Medicine, and Pathology, Center for AIDS Research, and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

John J. Pink

Affiliation Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Medicine, and Pathology, Center for AIDS Research, and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Dawn Dawson

Affiliation Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Medicine, and Pathology, Center for AIDS Research, and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jay Wasman

Affiliation Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Medicine, and Pathology, Center for AIDS Research, and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jackson Orem

Affiliation Uganda Cancer Institute, School of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Walter O. Mwanda

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kenyatta National Hospital, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Honglan Zhu

Current address: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China

Affiliation Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and Molecular Medicine Core Facility, Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Xiaobing Liang

Affiliation Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and Molecular Medicine Core Facility, Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Yi Guo

Affiliation Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and Molecular Medicine Core Facility, Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

William P. Petros

Affiliation Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and Molecular Medicine Core Facility, Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Ronald T. Mitsuyasu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Henry Wabinga

Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Scot C. Remick

Affiliation Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and Molecular Medicine Core Facility, Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJY SR. Performed the experiments: HZ XL YG. Analyzed the data: DD WP RTM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PF JJP JW JO WOM HW. Wrote the paper: JJY.