About the Authors

Sara Khalil

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Grace A. Tan

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Dilip D. Giri

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Xi Kathy Zhou

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Louise R. Howe

lrhowe@med.cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LRH. Performed the experiments: SK GAT DDG LRH. Analyzed the data: XKZ LRH. Wrote the paper: LRH. Developed the scoring system: DDG LRH.