About the Authors

Renfeng Li

rli@vcu.edu (RL); pandey@jhmi.edu (AP); dhayward@jhmi.edu (SDH)

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, VCU School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Gangling Liao

Contributed equally to this work with: Gangling Liao, Raja Sekhar Nirujogi

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

Raja Sekhar Nirujogi

Contributed equally to this work with: Gangling Liao, Raja Sekhar Nirujogi

Affiliations McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, International Technology Park, Bangalore, India

Sneha M. Pinto

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics, International Technology Park, Bangalore, India

Patrick G. Shaw

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Tai-Chung Huang

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jun Wan

Affiliation Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jiang Qian

Affiliation Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Harsha Gowda

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics, International Technology Park, Bangalore, India

Xinyan Wu

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Dong-Wen Lv

Affiliation Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, VCU School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Kun Zhang

Affiliation Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, VCU School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Srikanth S. Manda

Affiliations Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, VCU School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Akhilesh Pandey

rli@vcu.edu (RL); pandey@jhmi.edu (AP); dhayward@jhmi.edu (SDH)

Affiliations Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, VCU School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Diana Helis Henry Medical Research Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

S. Diane Hayward

rli@vcu.edu (RL); pandey@jhmi.edu (AP); dhayward@jhmi.edu (SDH)

Affiliation Department of Oncology, 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: RL AP SDH. Performed the experiments: RL RSN SMP PGS TCH GL KZ DWL. Analyzed the data: RL RSN DWL JW JQ HG AP SDH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RL GL XW SSM. Wrote the paper: RL SDH.