About the Authors

Chunfang Hu

Affiliation School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Wenbin Wei

Affiliation School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Xiaoyi Chen

Affiliations School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Department of Pathology, Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Ciaran B. Woodman

Affiliation School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Yunhong Yao

Affiliations School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Department of Pathology, Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

John M. Nicholls

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Irène Joab

Affiliation UMR542 Inserm-Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France

Sim K. Sihota

Affiliation School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Jian-Yong Shao

Affiliation Department of Molecular Diagnostics, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Centre, Guangzhou, China

K. Dalia Derkaoui

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement et de la Différenciation, Faculté des Sciences, Université d’Oran, Oran, Algeria

Aicha Amari

Affiliation ORL Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire, Oran, Algeria

Stephanie L. Maloney

Affiliation School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Andrew I. Bell

Affiliation School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Paul G. Murray

Affiliation School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Christopher W. Dawson

Affiliation School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Lawrence S. Young

Affiliation School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

John R. Arrand

j.r.arrand@bham.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JRA CH WW. Performed the experiments: CH SKS JRA XC YY CWD SLM. Analyzed the data: WW JRA CBW AIB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMN XC YY J-YS KDD AA IJ. Wrote the paper: JRA CH WW CBW PGM LSY.