About the Authors

Chengcheng Guo

Affiliations Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery/Neuro-Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Haibo Lu

Affiliations Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The 8th Department of Internal Medicine, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Wen Gao

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Li Wang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kaihua Lu

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shuhong Wu

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Apar Pataer

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Maosheng Huang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Randa El-Zein

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tongyu Lin

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Jack A. Roth

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Reza Mehran

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wayne Hofstetter

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Stephen G. Swisher

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xifeng Wu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bingliang Fang

bfang@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BF SGS JAR WH CG XW. Performed the experiments: CG HL LW KL WG SW. Analyzed the data: CG MH BF AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW REZ RM WH SGS JAR TL. Wrote the manuscript: CG BF MH.