About the Authors

Jieru Meng

jmeng@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Section of Thoracic Molecular Oncology, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bingbing Dai

Affiliation Section of Thoracic Molecular Oncology, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bingliang Fang

Affiliation Section of Thoracic Molecular Oncology, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

B. Nebiyou Bekele

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

William G. Bornmann

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Duoli Sun

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Zhenghong Peng

Affiliation Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Roy S. Herbst

Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Vassiliki Papadimitrakopoulou

Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John D. Minna

Affiliation Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, and Simmons Cancer Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Michael Peyton

Affiliation Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, and Simmons Cancer Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Jack A. Roth

Affiliation Section of Thoracic Molecular Oncology, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM BF JAR. Performed the experiments: JM BD. Analyzed the data: JM BNB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM WGB DS ZP RH VP. Wrote the paper: JM JDM MP JAR.