About the Authors

David Serre

Current address: Genomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America,

Affiliation Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Alexandre Montpetit

Affiliation Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Guillaume Paré

Current address: Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

James C. Engert

Affiliation Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Salim Yusuf

Affiliation Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Bernard Keavney

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Thomas J. Hudson

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tom.hudson@oicr.on.ca

Affiliation Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sonia Anand

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS SY SA TH JE. Performed the experiments: DS. Analyzed the data: DS AM TH GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS SY BK SA AM TH GP JE. Wrote the paper: DS SA TH.