About the Authors

Ya'an Kang

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

Jianhua Ling

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rei Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, the Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

David Roife

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

Xavier Chopin-Laly

Affiliation Clinique Charcot, Sainte Foy lès Lyon, France

Mark J. Truty

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Deyali Chatterjee

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

Huamin Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ryan M. Thomas

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, the University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Matthew H. Katz

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

Paul J. Chiao

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jason B. Fleming

jbflemin@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, 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: YK PJC JBF. Performed the experiments: YK JL RS XCL. Analyzed the data: MJT RMT MHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC HW. Wrote the paper: YK DR JBF.