About the Authors

Chong-xian Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Chong-xian Pan, Hongyong Zhang, Clifford G. Tepper

cxpan@ucdavis.edu (C-xP); rwdeverewhite@ucdavis.edu (RWdVW)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 95817, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 95817, United States of America, VA Northern California Health Care System, Mather, CA, 95655, United States of America

Hongyong Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chong-xian Pan, Hongyong Zhang, Clifford G. Tepper

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 95817, United States of America

Clifford G. Tepper

Contributed equally to this work with: Chong-xian Pan, Hongyong Zhang, Clifford G. Tepper

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 95817, United States of America

Tzu-yin Lin

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 95817, United States of America

Ryan R. Davis

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 95817, United States of America

James Keck

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Sacramento, CA, 95838, United States of America

Paramita M. Ghosh

Affiliations Department of Urology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 95817, United States of America, VA Northern California Health Care System, Mather, CA, 95655, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 95817, United States of America

Parkash Gill

Affiliation University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, United States of America

Susan Airhart

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Sacramento, CA, 95838, United States of America

Carol Bult

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Sacramento, CA, 95838, United States of America

David R. Gandara

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 95817, United States of America

Edison Liu

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Sacramento, CA, 95838, United States of America

Ralph W. de Vere White

cxpan@ucdavis.edu (C-xP); rwdeverewhite@ucdavis.edu (RWdVW)

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, 95817, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C-xP PMG PG SA CB DRG EL RWdVW. Performed the experiments: HZ T-yL CGT JK PMG. Analyzed the data: C-xP HZ T-yL CGT RRD JK PMG PG SA CB DRG EL RWdVW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CGT JK PMG SA CB EL. Wrote the paper: C-xP HZ T-yL CGT JK PMG PG SA CB DRG EL RWdVW.