About the Authors

Melissa Davis

Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa Davis, Shweta Tripathi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Health Systems and Henry Ford Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, United States of America

Shweta Tripathi

Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa Davis, Shweta Tripathi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biology & Center for Cancer Research, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, United States of America

Raymond Hughley

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology & Center for Cancer Research, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, United States of America

Qinghua He

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States of America

Sejong Bae

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Balasubramanyam Karanam

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology & Center for Cancer Research, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, United States of America

Rachel Martini

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Health Systems and Henry Ford Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, United States of America

Lisa Newman

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Henry Ford Health Systems and International Center for the Study of Breast Cancer Subtypes, Detroit, MI, United States of America

Windy Colomb

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Oncology, CHRISTUS St. Patrick Hospital, Lake Charles, LA, United States of America

William Grizzle

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

Clayton Yates

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

cyates@tuskegee.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology & Center for Cancer Research, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have no conflicting financial interests. The commercial affiliation of MBD does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies. Further, this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.