About the Authors

Yu-Fen Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Fen Lin, Hatsumi Nagasawa

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Hatsumi Nagasawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Fen Lin, Hatsumi Nagasawa

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

John B. Little

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Takamitsu A. Kato

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Hung-Ying Shih

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Xian-Jin Xie

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Paul F. Wilson Jr.

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

John R. Brogan

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Akihiro Kurimasa

Affiliation Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Graduate School of Medical Science, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan

David J. Chen

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Joel S. Bedford

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Benjamin P. C. Chen

benjamin.chen@utsouthwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YFL HN BPC. Performed the experiments: YFL HN JRB. Analyzed the data: YFL HN TAK HYS XJX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PFW AK DJC. Wrote the paper: YFL HN JBL JSB BPC.