About the Authors

Mayumi Jijiwa

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Habibe Demir

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Snehalata Gupta

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Crystal Leung

Affiliation Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kaushal Joshi

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Nicholas Orozco

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tiffany Huang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Vedat O. Yildiz

Affiliation Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ichiyo Shibahara

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jason A. de Jesus

Affiliation Department of Pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

William H. Yong

Affiliation Department of Pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Paul S. Mischel

Affiliation Department of Pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Soledad Fernandez

Affiliation Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Harley I. Kornblum

Affiliations Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ichiro Nakano

ichiro.nakano@osumc.edu

Affiliations Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IN. Performed the experiments: MJ HD SG CL KJ NO TH IS JdJ. Analyzed the data: VY PM SF HK IN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WY IN. Wrote the paper: WY IN.