About the Authors

Ruey-Shyang Soong

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung City, Taiwan, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Liwen Song

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Pharmacy School of Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Janson Trieu

Affiliation Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sung Yong Lee

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea

Liangmei He

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ya-Chea Tsai

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

T.-C. Wu

chung2@jhmi.edu (C-FH); wutc@jhmi.edu (T-CW)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Chien-Fu Hung

chung2@jhmi.edu (C-FH); wutc@jhmi.edu (T-CW)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSS TCW CFH. Performed the experiments: RSS LS JT SYL LH YCT. Analyzed the data: RSS JT TCW CFH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TCW CFH. Wrote the paper: RSS JT TCW CFH.