About the Authors

Ramazan Kurt

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Partha K. Chandra

Affiliation Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Fatma Aboulnasr

Affiliation Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Rajesh Panigrahi

Affiliation Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Pauline Ferraris

Affiliation Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Yucel Aydin

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Krzysztof Reiss

Affiliation Neurological Cancer Research, Stanley S Scott Cancer Center, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Tong Wu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Luis A. Balart

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Srikanta Dash

sdash@tulane.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK PKC SD. Performed the experiments: RK PKC FA RP PF YA. Analyzed the data: RK PKC KR SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KR LAB TW SD. Wrote the paper: RK SD.