About the Authors

Yin Xiong

Affiliation Endocrine Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lisa Zhang

Affiliation Endocrine Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Electron Kebebew

kebebewe@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Endocrine Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX LZ EK. Performed the experiments: YX LZ. Analyzed the data: YX LZ EK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX LZ EK. Wrote the paper: YX LZ EK.