About the Authors

Chun-do Oh

Current address: Department of Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yue Lu

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Science, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shoudan Liang

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Science, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yuko Mori-Akiyama

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Di Chen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Benoit de Crombrugghe

Affiliation Department of Genetics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hideyo Yasuda

h-yasuda@yk9.so-net.ne.jp

Current address: Mariabiotech Co. Ltd, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Department of Genetics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C-DO BD HY. Performed the experiments: C-DO HY. Analyzed the data: C-DO YL SL HY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM-A. Wrote the paper: C-DO DC BD HY.