About the Authors

Nikita Wright

Contributed equally to this work with: Nikita Wright, Jun Xia

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jun Xia

Contributed equally to this work with: Nikita Wright, Jun Xia

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Guilherme Cantuaria

Affiliation Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Northside Hospital Cancer Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Sergey Klimov

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mildred Jones

Affiliation Department of Pathology Oncology Analytics, Northside Hospital Cancer Institute, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Pranay Neema

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Dora Il’yasova

Affiliation School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Uma Krishnamurti

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Xiaoxian Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Michelle D. Reid

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Meenakshi Gupta

Affiliation Clinical Pathology and Anatomic Pathology, West Georgia Hospitals, LaGrange, Georgia, United States of America

Padmashree C. G. Rida

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Remus Osan

rosan@gsu.edu (RO); raneja@gsu.edu (RA)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ritu Aneja

rosan@gsu.edu (RO); raneja@gsu.edu (RA)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

One of the authors [PCG Rida] is supported in the form of salary by Novazoi Theranostics. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NW. Data curation: JX PN. Formal analysis: JX RO SK. Funding acquisition: RA PR. Investigation: NW JX RO. Methodology: NW JX. Project administration: RA. Resources: RA GC MJ. Software: JX RO. Supervision: RA. Validation: JX RO. Visualization: NW. Writing – original draft: NW. Writing – review & editing: NW RO PR DI UK XL MR MG RA.