About the Authors

Meghana Rao

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Wenqiang Song

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Aixiang Jiang

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yu Shyr

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Sima Lev

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

David Greenstein

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Dana Brantley-Sieders

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jin Chen

jin.chen@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR JC. Performed the experiments: MR WS DBS AJ. Analyzed the data: MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DG SL YS. Wrote the paper: MR JC.