About the Authors

Adam Kotorashvili

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam Kotorashvili, Andrew Ramnauth

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Andrew Ramnauth

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam Kotorashvili, Andrew Ramnauth

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Christina Liu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Juan Lin

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Kenny Ye

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ryung Kim

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Rachel Hazan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx , New York, United States of America

Thomas Rohan

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Susan Fineberg

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx , New York, United States of America

Olivier Loudig

olivier.loudig@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx , New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OL. Wrote the paper: OL. Proposed the idea of recovering DNA and RNA: TR OL. Performed RNA and DNA extractions: AK AR OL. Provided mouse tissues: RH. Provided TRIzol extracted tissues: RH. Performed the methylation assays: AR. Performed the qRT-PCR: CL. Performed mRNA and miRNA profiling: OL. Performed the mRNA expression analysis: JL RK. Performed the miRNA expression analysis: KY. Analyzed the DNA and RNA extraction data: OL AK AR. Analyzed the mRNA and miRNA profiling data: JL RK KY OL. Analyzed the qRT-PCR experiments for mRNA and miRNA: OL CL. Analyzed the methylation data: AR. Provided the statistical analysis: JL RK KY. Provided fixed tissues: SF. Provided mouse tissues and TRIzol extracts: RH. Reviewed manuscript: TR.