About the Authors

Jeffrey W. Brown

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Internal Medicine Residency Program, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, UPMC Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Esther Bullitt

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sira Sriswasdi

Affiliations Center for Systems and Computational Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Genomics and Computational Biology Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sandra Harper

Affiliation Center for Systems and Computational Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David W. Speicher

Affiliations Center for Systems and Computational Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program, the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Genomics and Computational Biology Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

C. James McKnight

cjmck@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JWB EB SS SH DWS CJM. Performed the experiments: JWB EB SS SH DWS CJM. Analyzed the data: JWB EB SS SH DWS CJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWB EB SS SH DWS CJM. Wrote the paper: JWB EB SS SH DWS CJM.