About the Authors

Taichun Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Taichun Qin, Ryan Castoro, Samih El Ahdab

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ryan Castoro

Contributed equally to this work with: Taichun Qin, Ryan Castoro, Samih El Ahdab

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Samih El Ahdab

Contributed equally to this work with: Taichun Qin, Ryan Castoro, Samih El Ahdab

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jaroslav Jelinek

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiaodan Wang

Affiliation Harbin Institute of Hematology & Oncology, Harbin, China

Jiali Si

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jingmin Shu

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rong He

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Nianxiang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Woonbok Chung

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hagop M. Kantarjian

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jean-Pierre J. Issa

jpissa@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD 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: JJ HMK J-PJI. Performed the experiments: TQ RC XW SEA. Analyzed the data: J. Si J. Shu RH NZ WC JJ J-PJI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NZ. Wrote the paper: TQ JJ J-PJI. Designed the software used in analysis: NZ.