About the Authors
- Robert J. Cardnell
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Contributed equally to this work with: Robert J. Cardnell, Ying Feng
Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Ying Feng
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Contributed equally to this work with: Robert J. Cardnell, Ying Feng
Affiliation Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc., Novato, California, United States of America
- Seema Mukherjee
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Lixia Diao
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Affiliation Departmant of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Pan Tong
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Affiliation Departmant of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- C. Allison Stewart
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Fatemeh Masrorpour
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- YouHong Fan
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Monique Nilsson
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Yuqiao Shen
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Affiliation Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc., Novato, California, United States of America
- John V. Heymach
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Jing Wang
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Affiliation Departmant of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Lauren A. Byers
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* E-mail: lbyers@mdanderson.org
Affiliation Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
YF and YS are employees of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. JVH serves on the advisory boards of AstraZenica, AbbVie, Novartis and Genentech. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RJC YF YS LAB. Performed the experiments: RJC YF SM CAS FM YHF MN. Analyzed the data: LD PT JW RJC JVH LAB YF YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PT JVH JW LAB YHF YS. Wrote the paper: RJC LAB.