About the Authors

Altuna Akalin

Contributed equally to this work with: Altuna Akalin, Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman

Contributed equally to this work with: Altuna Akalin, Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Matthias Kormaksson

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Jennifer Busuttil

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Lu Zhang

Affiliation Illumina, Hayward, California, United States of America

Irina Khrebtukova

Affiliation Illumina, Hayward, California, United States of America

Thomas A. Milne

Affiliation MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Yongsheng Huang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Debabrata Biswas

Affiliation Laboratory of Chromatin Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jay L. Hess

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

C. David Allis

Affiliation Laboratory of Chromatin Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert G. Roeder

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Peter J. M. Valk

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Bob Löwenberg

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ruud Delwel

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Hugo F. Fernandez

Affiliation Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Elisabeth Paietta

Affiliation Cancer Center, Montefiore Medical Center–North Division, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Martin S. Tallman

Affiliation Leukemia Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Gary P. Schroth

Affiliation Illumina, Hayward, California, United States of America

Christopher E. Mason

chm2042@med.cornell.edu (CEM); amm2014@med.cornell.edu (AM); marfigue@med.umich.edu (MEF)

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Ari Melnick

chm2042@med.cornell.edu (CEM); amm2014@med.cornell.edu (AM); marfigue@med.umich.edu (MEF)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Maria E. Figueroa

chm2042@med.cornell.edu (CEM); amm2014@med.cornell.edu (AM); marfigue@med.umich.edu (MEF)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

GPS, IK, LZ, and JB are currently or have until recently been employed by Illumina.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEF AM. Performed the experiments: FEG-B JB MEF. Analyzed the data: AA MK FEG-B MEF CEM AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA MK GPS PJMV BL RD EP MST IK LZ HFF. Wrote the paper: FEG-B AA MK CEM AM MEF. Contributed MLL ChIP-seq experiments: TAM DB CDA RGR. Contributed HOXA9 and MEIS1 ChIP-seq experiments: YH JLH. Critically reviewed the final manuscript prior to submission: all authors.