About the Authors

Rebecca Sorber

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca Sorber, Yaroslav Teper

Affiliation Thoracic & GI Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Yaroslav Teper

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca Sorber, Yaroslav Teper

Affiliation Thoracic & GI Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Abisola Abisoye-Ogunniyan

Affiliations Thoracic & GI Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America, Department of Biology and Center for Cancer Research, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama 36088, United States of America

Joshua J. Waterfall

Affiliation Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Sean Davis

Affiliation Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

J. Keith Killian

Affiliation Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Marbin Pineda

Affiliation Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Satyajit Ray

Affiliation Surgery Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Matt R. McCord

Affiliation Thoracic & GI Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Holger Pflicke

Affiliation Thoracic & GI Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Sandra Sczerba Burkett

Affiliation Molecular Cytogenetic Section, MCGP, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Frederick, Maryland 21702, United States of America

Paul S. Meltzer

Affiliation Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Udo Rudloff

rudloffu@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Thoracic & GI Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: This research was made possible through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medical Research Scholars Program, a public-private partnership supported jointly by the NIH and generous contributions to the Foundation for the NIH from Pfizer Inc, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Newport Foundation, The American Association for Dental Research, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Colgate-Palmolive Company, as well as other private donors. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJW SD UR. Performed the experiments: YT RS AAO MRM MP HP SR SSB. Analyzed the data: AAO MP HP YT SR SSB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UR PSM JKK. Wrote the paper: UR.