About the Authors

Claudia Stein

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Stein, Anaïs Flore Bardet

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Anaïs Flore Bardet

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Stein, Anaïs Flore Bardet

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Guglielmo Roma

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Sebastian Bergling

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Ieuan Clay

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Alexandra Ruchti

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Claudia Agarinis

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Tobias Schmelzle

Affiliation Oncology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Tewis Bouwmeester

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Dirk Schübeler

dirk.schubeler@fmi.ch (DS); andreas-1.bauer@novartis.com (AB)

Affiliations Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Faculty of Sciences, Basel, Switzerland

Andreas Bauer

dirk.schubeler@fmi.ch (DS); andreas-1.bauer@novartis.com (AB)

Affiliation Developmental and Molecular Pathways, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors of this manuscript have read the journal's policy and have the following competing interests: CS, GR, SB, IC, AR, CA, TS, TB and AB are employees of Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS AFB DS AB. Performed the experiments: CS AR CA. Analyzed the data: AFB GR SB IC. Wrote the paper: CS AFB TB DS AB. Commented on and revised the manuscript: CS AFB GR SB IC AR CA TS TB DS AB. Supervised the project and revised the manuscript: TS TB DS AB. Supported design, data acquisition and analysis for the RNA-seq and ChIP-seq experiments: GR SB.