About the Authors

Guruprasad Ananda

Current address: Computational Sciences, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Suzanne E. Hile

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Gittlen Cancer Research Foundation, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Amanda Breski

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Gittlen Cancer Research Foundation, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yanli Wang

Affiliation Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yogeshwar Kelkar

Current address: Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kateryna D. Makova

kdm16@psu.edu (KDM); kae4@psu.edu (KAE)

Affiliations Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Medical Genomics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kristin A. Eckert

kdm16@psu.edu (KDM); kae4@psu.edu (KAE)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Gittlen Cancer Research Foundation, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Medical Genomics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KAE KDM SEH GA YK. Performed the experiments: SEH AB GA YW YK. Analyzed the data: KAE KDM SEH GA AB YW YK. Wrote the paper: KAE KDM SEH GA YK. Prepared figures and tables: SEH GA AB YW YK.