About the Authors

Sami Ventelä

Contributed equally to this work with: Sami Ventelä, Christophe Côme

Affiliations Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, Department of Physiology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Christophe Côme

Contributed equally to this work with: Sami Ventelä, Christophe Côme

Affiliation Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Juho-Antti Mäkelä

Affiliations Department of Physiology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Turku Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Robin M. Hobbs

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Program, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Leni Mannermaa

Affiliation Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Markku Kallajoki

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Edward K. Chan

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Pier Paolo Pandolfi

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Program, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jorma Toppari

Affiliations Department of Physiology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Department of Pediatrics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Jukka Westermarck

jukwes@utu.fi

Affiliations Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, Department of Pathology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV CC JT JW. Performed the experiments: SV CC JAM LM. Analyzed the data: SV CC JAM MK JT JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RMH PPP MK EC. Wrote the paper: SV CC JT JW.