About the Authors

MyLinh T. Duong

Affiliations Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Said Akli

Affiliation Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Caimiao Wei

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hannah F. Wingate

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wenbin Liu

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yiling Lu

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Min Yi

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Gordon B. Mills

Affiliations Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Systems Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kelly K. Hunt

kkeyomar@mdanderson.org (KK); khunt@mdanderson.org (KKH)

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Khandan Keyomarsi

kkeyomar@mdanderson.org (KK); khunt@mdanderson.org (KKH)

Affiliations Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GBM KKH KK. Performed the experiments: MTD SA HFW YL. Analyzed the data: CW MY WL. Wrote the paper: MTD KK. Performed the statistical and bioinformatic analysis for this manuscript: CW MY WL.