About the Authors

Emily N. Kroutter

Contributed equally to this work with: Emily N. Kroutter, Victoria P. Belancio

Affiliations Tulane Cancer Center SL-66, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Victoria P. Belancio

Contributed equally to this work with: Emily N. Kroutter, Victoria P. Belancio

Affiliations Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, Tulane School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Tulane Center for Aging, Tulane School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Bradley J. Wagstaff

Affiliations Tulane Cancer Center SL-66, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Astrid M. Roy-Engel

aengel@tulane.edu

Affiliations Tulane Cancer Center SL-66, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ENK VPB AMRE. Performed the experiments: ENK VPB BJW AMRE. Analyzed the data: ENK VPB BJW AMRE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BJW AMRE. Wrote the paper: AMRE. Edited the article: ENK VPB BJW.