About the Authors

Dongyan Wang

Affiliation Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Mitchell A. Olman

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jerry Stewart Jr

Affiliation Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Russell Tipps

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Ping Huang

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Paul W. Sanders

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Eric Toline

Affiliation Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Richard A. Prayson

Affiliation Department of Anatomic Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jeongwu Lee

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Robert J.Weil

Affiliation Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Cheryl A. Palmer

Affiliation Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

G. Yancey Gillespie

Affiliation Neurosurgery Division, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Wei Michael Liu

Affiliations Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Russell O. Pieper

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jun-Lin Guan

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Candece L. Gladson

gladsoc@ccf.org

Affiliations Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW CLG. Performed the experiments: DW MAO JSJ RT PH ET. Analyzed the data: DW CLG MAO WML JSJ RT PH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JLG PWS RAP JL RJW CAP GYG ROP. Wrote the paper: DW CLG.