About the Authors

Xin Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Zhou, Catalin Marian

Affiliation Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Catalin Marian

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Zhou, Catalin Marian

Current address: Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Kepher H. Makambi

Affiliation Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Ourania Kosti

Affiliation Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Bhaskar V. S. Kallakury

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Christopher A. Loffredo

Affiliation Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Yun-Ling Zheng

yz37@georgetown.edu

Affiliation Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM YLZ. Performed the experiments: XZ CM BVSK. Analyzed the data: KHM OK CAL. Wrote the paper: XZ CM.