About the Authors

Baqer A. Haider

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America

Alexander S. Baras

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America

Matthew N. McCall

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Joshua A. Hertel

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America

Toby C. Cornish

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America

Marc K. Halushka

mhalush1@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MKH TCC MNM ASB. Performed the experiments: BH JAH MKH MNM ASB. Analyzed the data: BH MNM ASB MKH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TCC. Wrote the paper: BH MKH TCC.