About the Authors

Joseph Briggs

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Briggs, Melissa Paoloni

Affiliation Tumor and Metastasis Biology Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Melissa Paoloni

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Briggs, Melissa Paoloni

Affiliation Comparative Oncology Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Qing-Rong Chen

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xinyu Wen

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Javed Khan

Affiliation Oncogenomics Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Chand Khanna

khannac@mail.nih.gov

Affiliations Tumor and Metastasis Biology Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Comparative Oncology Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MP JB CK. Performed the experiments: MP JB. Analyzed the data: MP JB Q-RC XW JK CK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP JB Q-RC XW JK CK. Wrote the paper: MP JB CK. Designed the software used in analysis: Q-RC XW JK.