About the Authors

Jitesh D. Kawedia

jdkawedia@mdanderson.org

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pharmacy Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Fan Yang

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Maureen A. Sartor

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, Michigan, United States of America

David Gozal

Affiliation University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Maria Czyzyk-Krzeska

Affiliations Department of Cancer and Cell Biology University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, VA Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Anil G. Menon

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDK FY AGM. Performed the experiments: JDK FY. Analyzed the data: JDK FY MAS MCK AGM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCK DG AGM. Wrote the paper: JDK AGM.