About the Authors

Yirong Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Liantian Tian

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Martin Ligr

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Garrett Daniels

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Yi Peng

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Xinyu Wu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Mandeep Singh

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Jianjun Wei

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yongzhao Shao

Affiliation Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Herbert Lepor

Affiliation Department of Urology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Ruliang Xu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Zhijie Chang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Zhengxin Wang

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Peng Lee

peng.lee@med.nyu.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Urology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Cancer Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PL ZXW. Performed the experiments: YRL LTT ML YP GD XYW. Analyzed the data: MS HL YZS JJW PL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZJC. Wrote the paper: YRL ML LTT RLX HL PL.