About the Authors

Yong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Yang, Won Suk Lee, Xia Tang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Won Suk Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Yang, Won Suk Lee, Xia Tang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Xia Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Yang, Won Suk Lee, Xia Tang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

William G. Wadsworth

william.wadsworth@rwjms.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY WSL XT WGW. Performed the experiments: YY WSL XT. Analyzed the data: YY WSL XT WGW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY WSL XT WGW. Wrote the paper: YY WSL XT WGW.