About the Authors

Angela M. Boutté

p.lin@nih.gov (PCL); angela.boutte@alumni.vanderbilt.edu (AMB)

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

W. Hayes McDonald

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yu Shyr

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Li Yang

Affiliation Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

P. Charles Lin

p.lin@nih.gov (PCL); angela.boutte@alumni.vanderbilt.edu (AMB)

Affiliation Center for Cancer Research, 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: AMB WHM YS PCL. Performed the experiments: AMB WHM. Analyzed the data: AMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMB WHM PCL LY. Wrote the paper: AMB. Manuscript editing: WHM PCL.