About the Authors

Yanis A. Boumber

Affiliations Department of Leukemia, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Cancer Biology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yutaka Kondo

Current address: Division of Molecular Oncology, Aichi Cancer Center, 1-1 Kanakoden, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xuqi Chen

Current address: Department of Physiological Science, University of California at Los Angeles, LSB 4117, 621 Charles E. Young South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lanlan Shen

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yi Guo

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Carmen Tellez

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Marcos R. H. Estécio

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Saira Ahmed

Affiliation Department of Leukemia, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jean-Pierre J. Issa

jpissa@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Department of Leukemia, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Cancer Biology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YB YK LS CST JPJI. Performed the experiments: YB XC YG SA. Analyzed the data: YB YK XC LS ME JPJI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPJI. Wrote the paper: YB JPJI.