About the Authors

Manuel S. Valenzuela

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuel S. Valenzuela, Yidong Chen

mvalenzuela@mmc.edu (MSV); pmeltzer@mail.nih.gov (PSM)

Affiliations Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yidong Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuel S. Valenzuela, Yidong Chen

Current address: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sean Davis

Affiliation Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Fan Yang

Affiliation Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robert L. Walker

Affiliation Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sven Bilke

Affiliation Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John Lueders

Affiliation Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Melvenia M. Martin

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mirit I. Aladjem

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Pierre P. Massion

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Paul S. Meltzer

mvalenzuela@mmc.edu (MSV); pmeltzer@mail.nih.gov (PSM)

Affiliation Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSV MIA PSM. Performed the experiments: MSV RLW JL MMM FY. Analyzed the data: YC SB SD PSM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PPM. Wrote the paper: MSV PSM.