About the Authors

Marthe Løvf

Contributed equally to this work with: Marthe Løvf, Gard O. S. Thomassen

Affiliations Department of Cancer Prevention, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Gard O. S. Thomassen

Contributed equally to this work with: Marthe Løvf, Gard O. S. Thomassen

Affiliations Department of Cancer Prevention, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Fredrik Mertens

Affiliation Department of Clinical Genetics, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

Nuno Cerveira

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal

Manuel R. Teixeira

Affiliations Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal, Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Ragnhild A. Lothe

Affiliations Department of Cancer Prevention, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Rolf I. Skotheim

rolf.i.skotheim@rr-research.no

Affiliations Department of Cancer Prevention, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML GOST RAL RIS. Performed the experiments: ML FM NC MRT. Analyzed the data: ML GOST RIS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM NC MRT. Wrote the paper: ML GOST FM NC MRT RAL RIS.