About the Authors
- Marion Gruffaz
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America
- Tinghe Zhang
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Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Vickie Marshall
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Viral Oncology Section, AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Priscila Gonçalves
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Current address: Center for Novel Cancer Therapies, Monter Cancer Center, Lake Success, New York, United States of America
Affiliation HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Ramya Ramaswami
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Nazzarena Labo
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Viral Oncology Section, AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Denise Whitby
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Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Viral Oncology Section, AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Thomas S. Uldrick
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Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Robert Yarchoan
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Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Yufei Huang
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Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Shou-Jiang Gao
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: gaos8@upmc.edu
Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: TSU and RY are co-inventors on a patent related to the treatment of KSHV-associated diseases with immune modulatory compounds, and the spouse of RY is a co-inventor on a patent related to the measurement of KSHV vIL-6. These inventions were all made as part of their duties as employees of the U.S. Government, and the patents are or will be assigned to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The government may convey a portion of the royalties it receives from licensure of its patents to its employee inventors. RY and TSU have a CRADA with Celgene Corp. and recently conducted clinical research using drugs supplied to the NCI by Merck and Co., Hoffman LaRoche, and Bayer Healthcare. TSU receives additional research funding from Roche. None of the other co-authors have conflicts of interest to disclose.