About the Authors

Geraldine Aubert

Contributed equally to this work with: Geraldine Aubert, Gabriela M. Baerlocher

Affiliation Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Gabriela M. Baerlocher

Contributed equally to this work with: Geraldine Aubert, Gabriela M. Baerlocher

Current address: Department of Hematology, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Affiliations Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Experimental Hematology, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Irma Vulto

Affiliation Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Steven S. Poon

Affiliation Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Peter M. Lansdorp

plansdor@bccrc.ca; p.m.lansdorp@umcg.nl

Affiliations Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

PML is a founding shareholder in Repeat Diagnostics, a company specializing in leukocyte telomere length measurements using flow FISH. All other authors declare no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GMB PML. Performed the experiments: GMB IV GA. Analyzed the data: IV GMB GA SSP PML. Wrote the paper: GA PML.