About the Authors

Daniel J. McGrail

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

djmcgrail@mdanderson.org (DJM); rkalluri@mdanderson.org (RK)

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Jianli Dai

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Metastasis Research Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Kathleen M. McAndrews

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Metastasis Research Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Raghu Kalluri

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

djmcgrail@mdanderson.org (DJM); rkalluri@mdanderson.org (RK)

Affiliations Department of Cancer Biology, Metastasis Research Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America, School of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.