About the Authors

Surbhi Sharma

Contributed equally to this work with: Surbhi Sharma, Oniel Toledo

Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Oniel Toledo

Contributed equally to this work with: Surbhi Sharma, Oniel Toledo

Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Michael Hedden

Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Kenneth F. Lyon

Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Steven B. Brooks

Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Roxanne P. David

Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Justin Limtong

Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Jacklyn M. Newsome

Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Nemanja Novakovic

Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Sanguthevar Rajasekaran

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269–2155, United States of America

Vishal Thapar

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States of America

Sean R. Williams

Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Martin R. Schiller

martin.schiller@unlv.edu

Affiliation Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRS OT SS MH KFL. Performed the experiments: RPD SBB VT NN JMN JL SRW OT KFL MH MRS SS. Analyzed the data: MH OT KFL SS MRS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OT MH. Wrote the paper: SS MRS OT KFL. Obtained funding for the work in this manuscript: MRS SR.