About the Authors

Stephanie L. Rellick

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie L. Rellick, Heather O'Leary

Affiliations Cancer Cell Biology Program, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Alexander B. Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Heather O'Leary

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie L. Rellick, Heather O'Leary

Affiliations Cancer Cell Biology Program, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Alexander B. Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Debbie Piktel

Affiliation Alexander B. Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Cheryl Walton

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

James E. Fortney

Affiliation Alexander B. Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Stephen M. Akers

Affiliations Cancer Cell Biology Program, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Alexander B. Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Karen H. Martin

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

James Denvir

Affiliation Department of Statistics, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Goran Boskovic

Affiliation Microarray Core Facility, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Donald A. Primerano

Affiliation Microarray Core Facility, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Jeffrey Vos

Affiliation West Virginia University Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America,

Nathanael Bailey

Affiliation West Virginia University Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America,

Marieta Gencheva

Affiliations Cancer Cell Biology Program, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Alexander B. Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Laura F. Gibson

lgibson@hsc.wvu.edu

Affiliations Cancer Cell Biology Program, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Alexander B. Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLR HO LFG. Performed the experiments: SLR HO DP CW JEF SMA KHM GB DAP JV NB MG. Analyzed the data: SLR HO JD GB DAP JV NB MG. Wrote the paper: SLR HO LFG.