About the Authors

Lihong Mo

Contributed equally to this work with: Lihong Mo, Vendula Pospichalova

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States of America

Vendula Pospichalova

Contributed equally to this work with: Lihong Mo, Vendula Pospichalova

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, 61137, Brno, Czech Republic

Zhiqing Huang

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States of America

Susan K. Murphy

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States of America

Sturgis Payne

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States of America

Fang Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States of America

Margaret Kennedy

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States of America

George J. Cianciolo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States of America

Vitezslav Bryja

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, 61137, Brno, Czech Republic

Salvatore V. Pizzo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States of America

Robin E. Bachelder

robin.bachelder@dm.duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM REB VP SKM GJC. Performed the experiments: LM VP FW SP ZH MK. Analyzed the data: LM VP REB SVP GJC MK SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKM VB SVP. Wrote the paper: LM VP REB.