About the Authors

Srilatha Nalluri

Contributed equally to this work with: Srilatha Nalluri, Sampa Ghoshal-Gupta

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Georgia Regents University-Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Sampa Ghoshal-Gupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Srilatha Nalluri, Sampa Ghoshal-Gupta

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Georgia Regents University-Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Ammar Kutiyanawalla

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Georgia Regents University-Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Sitaram Gayatri

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Georgia Regents University-Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Byung Rho Lee

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Georgia Regents University-Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Shahanawaz Jiwani

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Georgia Regents University-Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Amyn M. Rojiani

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Georgia Regents University-Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Mumtaz V. Rojiani

mrojiani@GRU.edu

Current address: Department of Medicine, Georgia Regents University-Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Georgia Regents University-Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVR AMR SN SGG. Performed the experiments: SN SGG AK SG BRL SJ. Analyzed the data: SN SGG AMR MVR. Wrote the paper: SN SGG SJ AMR MVR.