About the Authors

Harjeet Singh

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Matthew J. Figliola

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Margaret J. Dawson

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Simon Olivares

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ling Zhang

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ge Yang

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sourindra Maiti

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Pallavi Manuri

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Vladimir Senyukov

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bipulendu Jena

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Partow Kebriaei

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Richard E. Champlin

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Helen Huls

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Laurence J. N. Cooper

ljncooper@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS HH LJNC PK RC. Performed the experiments: HS MJF MJD LZ GY SM PM VS BJ HH. Analyzed the data: HS MJF MJD HH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH SO. Wrote the paper: HS LJNC.