About the Authors

Fei Yan

Affiliation The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, 801 16th Avenue NE, Austin, Minnesota, 55912, United States of America

Jiuxia Pang

Affiliation The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, 801 16th Avenue NE, Austin, Minnesota, 55912, United States of America

Yong Peng

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University /Collaborative Innovation Center of Biotherapy, Chengdu, 610041, China

Julian R. Molina

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, United States of America

Ping Yang

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, United States of America

Shujun Liu

sliu@hi.umn.edu

Affiliation The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, 801 16th Avenue NE, Austin, Minnesota, 55912, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SJL. Data curation: FY SJL. Formal analysis: FY SJL. Funding acquisition: SJL. Investigation: FY SJL. Methodology: FY JXP YP. Project administration: SJL. Resources: PY JRM SJL. Supervision: SJL. Validation: SJL. Visualization: FY SJL. Writing – original draft: SJL. Writing – review & editing: SJL PY JRM.