About the Authors
- Kui Shen
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Affiliation Precision Therapeutics, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Shara D. Rice
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Affiliation Precision Therapeutics, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- David A. Gingrich
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Affiliation Precision Therapeutics, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Dakun Wang
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Affiliation Precision Therapeutics, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Zhibao Mi
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Affiliation Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, VA Maryland Health Care System, Perry Point, Maryland, United States of America
- Chunqiao Tian
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Affiliation Precision Therapeutics, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Zhenyu Ding
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Affiliation Precision Therapeutics, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Stacey L. Brower
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Affiliation Precision Therapeutics, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Paul R. Ervin Jr.
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Affiliation Precision Therapeutics, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Michael J. Gabrin
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Affiliation Precision Therapeutics, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- George Tseng
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Nan Song
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* E-mail: nsong@ptilabs.com
Affiliation Precision Therapeutics, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
KS, SR, CT, DG, DW, ZD, SB, PE, MG and NS were employees of Precision Therapeutics, Inc., and received salary from Precision Therapeutics, Inc. Zhibao Mi and George Tseng are consultants of Precision Therapeutics, Inc. A provisional patent application (# 61/265,588) related to the content of the manuscript has been filed. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NS KS GT PE MG SB DW ZM. Performed the experiments: SR. Analyzed the data: NS KS CT DG ZD ZM. Wrote the paper: NS KS SB CT.