About the Authors

Pierluigi Gasparini

Contributed equally to this work with: Pierluigi Gasparini, Matteo Fassan, Luciano Cascione

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Matteo Fassan

Contributed equally to this work with: Pierluigi Gasparini, Matteo Fassan, Luciano Cascione

matteo.fassan@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, ARC-NET Research Centre, University and Hospital Trust of Verona, Verona Italy

Luciano Cascione

Contributed equally to this work with: Pierluigi Gasparini, Matteo Fassan, Luciano Cascione

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Gulnur Guler

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hacettepe University, Ankara Turkey

Serdar Balci

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hacettepe University, Ankara Turkey

Cigdem Irkkan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hacettepe University, Ankara Turkey

Carolyn Paisie

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Francesca Lovat

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Carl Morrison

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Jianying Zhang

Affiliation Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Aldo Scarpa

Affiliation ARC-NET Research Centre, University and Hospital Trust of Verona, Verona Italy

Carlo M. Croce

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Charles L. Shapiro

Affiliation Division of Medical Oncology and the Breast Program, James Cancer Hospital and Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Kay Huebner

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG GG KH. Performed the experiments: PG LC FL CI CP. Analyzed the data: PG MF LC JZ GG AS SB KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM CMC CLS KH. Wrote the paper: PG MF LC KH.