About the Authors

Nicola J. Brown

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Sue E. Higham

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Branko Perunovic

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Mohammad Arafa

Current address: Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Sabapathy Balasubramanian

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Ishtiaq Rehman

i.rehman@sheffield.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Human Metabolism, The Mellanby Centre for Bone Research, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NJB SB IR. Performed the experiments: SEH SB IR. Analyzed the data: NJB SEH BP MA IR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJB SB IR. Wrote the paper: NJB SEH SB IR.