About the Authors

Haley M. Simpson

Affiliations Program in Oncology, Greenebaum Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Center for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Rashid Z. Khan

Affiliations Program in Oncology, Greenebaum Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Center for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Chang Song

Affiliations Program in Oncology, Greenebaum Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Center for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Deva Sharma

Affiliations Program in Oncology, Greenebaum Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Center for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Kavitha Sadashivaiah

Affiliations Program in Oncology, Greenebaum Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Center for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Aki Furusawa

Affiliations Program in Oncology, Greenebaum Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Center for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Xinyue Liu

Affiliation Genome Resource Center, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Sushma Nagaraj

Affiliation Genome Resource Center, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Naomi Sengamalay

Affiliation Genome Resource Center, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Lisa Sadzewicz

Affiliation Genome Resource Center, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Luke J. Tallon

Affiliation Genome Resource Center, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Qing C. Chen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Ferenc Livak

Affiliations Program in Oncology, Greenebaum Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Aaron P. Rapoport

Affiliation Program in Oncology, Greenebaum Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Amy Kimball

Affiliation Program in Oncology, Greenebaum Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Arnob Banerjee

abanerjee@som.umaryland.edu

Affiliations Program in Oncology, Greenebaum Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Center for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HMS RZK AB. Performed the experiments: HMS RZK CS DS KS NS AF APR AK AB. Analyzed the data: HMS RZK LJT XL QCC LS AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LJT XL QCC SN LS FL APR AK AB. Wrote the paper: HMS RZK AB.