About the Authors

Yu Cao

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Michael Roth

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Sajida Piperdi

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Kristofer Montoya

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Rebecca Sowers

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Pulivarthi Rao

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Texas Children’s Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

David Geller

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center and the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Peter Houghton

Affiliation Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

E. Anders Kolb

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Jonathan Gill

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Richard Gorlick

RGorlick@montefiore.org

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC SP RS MR JG DG PR PH EK RG. Performed the experiments: YC SP RS PR. Analyzed the data: YC SP RS PR MR RG JG DG KM PH EK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RG PR PH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: YC SP RS PR MR RG JG DG KM PH EK.