About the Authors

Deyi Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Deyi Xiao, Joanna Ohlendorf

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Joanna Ohlendorf

Contributed equally to this work with: Deyi Xiao, Joanna Ohlendorf

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Yinlu Chen

Affiliation Microarray facility, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Douglas D. Taylor

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women’s Health, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Shesh N. Rai

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Sabine Waigel

Affiliation Microarray facility, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Wolfgang Zacharias

Affiliations Microarray facility, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Department of Medicine and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Hongying Hao

h0hao001@louisville.edu (HH); mcmasters@louisville.edu (KMM)

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Kelly M. McMasters

h0hao001@louisville.edu (HH); mcmasters@louisville.edu (KMM)

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DX JO DDT HH WZ KMM. Performed the experiments: DX JO HH. Analyzed the data: DX JO HH YC SNR SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DX JO YC DDT SNR SW WZ HH KMM. Wrote the paper: DX JO DDT WZ HH KMM.