About the Authors

Hanyin Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Hanyin Cheng, Lina Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lina Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hanyin Cheng, Lina Zhang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

David E. Cogdell

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hong Zheng

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Aaron J. Schetter

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Matti Nykter

Affiliation Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

Curtis C. Harris

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kexin Chen

wzhang@mdanderson.org (WZ); shamilto@mdanderson.org (SRH); chenkexin1963@yahoo.com (KC)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China

Stanley R. Hamilton

wzhang@mdanderson.org (WZ); shamilto@mdanderson.org (SRH); chenkexin1963@yahoo.com (KC)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wei Zhang

wzhang@mdanderson.org (WZ); shamilto@mdanderson.org (SRH); chenkexin1963@yahoo.com (KC)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HC KC SRH WZ. Performed the experiments: HC DEC HZ AJS. Analyzed the data: LZ MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCH KC. Wrote the paper: HC LZ KC SRH WZ.