About the Authors

Soumik BasuRay

Contributed equally to this work with: Soumik BasuRay, Sanchita Mukherjee

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Sanchita Mukherjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Soumik BasuRay, Sanchita Mukherjee

Current address: Endocrine Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Elsa Romero

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Michael C. Wilson

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Angela Wandinger-Ness

wness@unm.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Cancer Research and Treatment Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SBR SM AWN. Performed the experiments: SBR SM. Analyzed the data: SBR SM MCW AWN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM ER. Wrote the paper: SBR AWN. Support as a technician: ER. Critical review of data and manuscript: AWN MCW.