About the Authors

Vardhman K Rakyan

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Thomas Hildmann

Affiliation Epigenomics AG, Berlin, Germany

Karen L Novik

address: Cancer Genetics Group, Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jörn Lewin

Affiliation Epigenomics AG, Berlin, Germany

Jörg Tost

Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, Evry Cedex, France

Antony V Cox

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

T. Dan Andrews

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Kevin L Howe

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Thomas Otto

Affiliation Epigenomics AG, Berlin, Germany

Alexander Olek

Affiliation Epigenomics AG, Berlin, Germany

Judith Fischer

Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, Evry Cedex, France

Ivo G Gut

Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, Evry Cedex, France

Kurt Berlin

Affiliation Epigenomics AG, Berlin, Germany

Stephan Beck

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: beck@sanger.ac.uk

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

JL, KB, TH, TO, and AO are employees of Epigenomics AG. IGG and SB are members of the scientific advisory board of Epigenomics AG, but do not benefit financially from their involvement in this study. Epigenomics AG has filed for patents based on some of the work described here. Epigenomics AG was a scientific collaborator in the study. The work described here was funded by a grant from the European Union Framework 5 Programme.

Author Contributions

VKR, TH, KLN, AO, SB, KB, and IGG conceived and designed the experiments. VKR, KLN, JL, and JT performed the experiments. VKR, TH, KLN, JL, DA, KLH, AVC, SB, JT, KB, and IGG analyzed the data. VKR, JL, TO, DA, KH, and AVC contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. VKR and SB wrote the paper.