About the Authors

Dana Pape-Zambito

Contributed equally to this work with: Dana Pape-Zambito, Zhengyu Jiang

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhengyu Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dana Pape-Zambito, Zhengyu Jiang

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hong Wu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Karthik Devarajan

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Carolyn M. Slater

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kathy Q. Cai

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Arthur Patchefsky

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mary B. Daly

Affiliation Department of Clinical Genetics, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xiaowei Chen

Xiaowei.Chen@fccc.edu

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC DPZ MBD. Performed the experiments: DPZ ZJ CMS. Analyzed the data: KD XC ZJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC MBD. Wrote the paper: XC DPZ ZJ. Participated H&E evaluation and helped in acquisition of the patient specimens: HW KQC AP. Performed the immunoassays and scored the IHC slides: DPZ ZJ CMS.