About the Authors

Bin Bao

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Bao, Shadan Ali

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Shadan Ali

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Bao, Shadan Ali

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Dejuan Kong

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Sanila H. Sarkar

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Zhiwei Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Sanjeev Banerjee

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Amro Aboukameel

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Subhash Padhye

Affiliation Dr. D. Y. Patil University, Pimpri, Pune, India

Philip A. Philip

Affiliation Division of Hematology/Oncology Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Fazlul H. Sarkar

fsarkar@med.wayne.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB SA DK SHS ZW SB AA SP PAP FHS. Performed the experiments: BB SA DK SHS ZW AA. Analyzed the data: BB SA ZW AA FHS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PAP SP FHS. Wrote the paper: BB SA FHS.