About the Authors

Yi-Fan Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Fan Xu, Xiaohui Xu, Kritisha Bhandari

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stephenson Cancer Centre, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Xiaohui Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Fan Xu, Xiaohui Xu, Kritisha Bhandari

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stephenson Cancer Centre, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of General Surgery, First People’s Hospital of Taicang City, Taicang Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Kritisha Bhandari

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Fan Xu, Xiaohui Xu, Kritisha Bhandari

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stephenson Cancer Centre, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Amy Gin

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stephenson Cancer Centre, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Chinthalapally V. Rao

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Hematologic Oncology Section, Stephenson Cancer Centre, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Katherine T. Morris

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Stephenson Cancer Centre, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Bethany N. Hannafon

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology Section, Stephenson Cancer Centre, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Wei-Qun Ding

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

weiqun-ding@ouhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stephenson Cancer Centre, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.