About the Authors

Muhammad Shaalan Beg

Muhammad.Beg@UTSouthwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Alok Kumar Dwivedi

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Syed Arif Ahmad

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Sadia Ali

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Olugbenga Olowokure

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSB OO. Performed the experiments: MSB AKD SA OO. Analyzed the data: MSB AKD. Wrote the paper: MSB AKD SAA SA OO.