About the Authors

Joseph C. Loftus

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph C. Loftus, Julianna T. D. Ross, Kimberly M. Paquette

ntran@tgen.org (NLT); loftus.joseph@mayo.edu (JCL)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Julianna T. D. Ross

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph C. Loftus, Julianna T. D. Ross, Kimberly M. Paquette

Affiliation Cancer and Cell Biology Division, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Kimberly M. Paquette

Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph C. Loftus, Julianna T. D. Ross, Kimberly M. Paquette

Affiliation Cancer and Cell Biology Division, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Vincent M. Paulino

Affiliation Cancer and Cell Biology Division, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Sara Nasser

Affiliation Computational Biology Division, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Zhongbo Yang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Jean Kloss

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Seungchan Kim

Affiliation Computational Biology Division, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Michael E. Berens

Affiliation Cancer and Cell Biology Division, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Nhan L. Tran

ntran@tgen.org (NLT); loftus.joseph@mayo.edu (JCL)

Affiliation Cancer and Cell Biology Division, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NT MB JL. Performed the experiments: KP JR VP SN ZY JK. Analyzed the data: KP JR SK JL NT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK. Wrote the paper: JL KP. Technical support: SK.