About the Authors

Vijay K Tiwari

Affiliations Cancer Biology Division, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America , Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Kelly M McGarvey

Affiliations Cancer Biology Division, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America , Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Julien D.F Licchesi

Affiliation Cancer Biology Division, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joyce E Ohm

Affiliation Cancer Biology Division, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

James G Herman

Affiliations Cancer Biology Division, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America , Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Dirk Schübeler

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Stephen B Baylin

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sbaylin@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Cancer Biology Division, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America , Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

VKT and SBB conceived and designed the experiments. VKT, KMG, and JDFL performed the experiments. VKT analyzed the data. VKT, KMG, JEO, JGH, DS, and SBB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. VKT wrote the paper.