About the Authors

Songping Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Tiffany H. Dorsey

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center of Cancer Research and Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Atsushi Terunuma

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center of Cancer Research and Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rick A. Kittles

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Stefan Ambs

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center of Cancer Research and Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bernard Kwabi-Addo

bkwabi-addo@howard.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA BKA. Performed the experiments: SW THD. Analyzed the data: AT RAK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT BKA. Wrote the paper: SA BKA.