About the Authors
- Rama Saad
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Affiliations Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, The Biotechnology Graduate Program, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
- Zheng Chen
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Affiliations Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China,
- Shoumin Zhu
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Peilin Jia
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Zhongming Zhao
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- M. Kay Washington
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Affiliation Department Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Abbes Belkhiri
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Wael El-Rifai
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* E-mail: wael.el-rifai@vanderbilt.edu
Affiliations Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Veterans Affairs, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Competing Interests
Wael El-Rifai is an Academic Editor of PLOS ONE and declares no conflict. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: WER. Performed the experiments: RS ZC SZ. Analyzed the data: PJ ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MKW AB WER. Wrote the paper: RS AB WER.