About the Authors

Anthony R. Dallosso

Affiliation Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood – Sargent Research Unit, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Anne L. Hancock

Affiliation Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood – Sargent Research Unit, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Marianna Szemes

Affiliation Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood – Sargent Research Unit, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Kim Moorwood

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Laxmi Chilukamarri

Affiliation Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood – Sargent Research Unit, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Hsin-Hao Tsai

Affiliation Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood – Sargent Research Unit, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Abby Sarkar

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America

Jonathan Barasch

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America

Raisa Vuononvirta

Affiliation Paediatric Oncology, Institute of Cancer Research/Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, United Kingdom

Chris Jones

Affiliation Paediatric Oncology, Institute of Cancer Research/Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, United Kingdom

Kathy Pritchard-Jones

Affiliation Paediatric Oncology, Institute of Cancer Research/Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, United Kingdom

Brigitte Royer-Pokora

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Sean Bong Lee

Affiliation Genetics of Development and Disease Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ceris Owen

Affiliation Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood – Sargent Research Unit, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Sally Malik

Affiliation Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood – Sargent Research Unit, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Yi Feng

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Marcus Frank

Affiliation Developmental Biology, Institute of Biology 1, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Andrew Ward

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Keith W. Brown

Keith.Brown@bristol.ac.uk (KWB); k.t.a.malik@bristol.ac.uk (KM)

Affiliation Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood – Sargent Research Unit, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Karim Malik

Keith.Brown@bristol.ac.uk (KWB); k.t.a.malik@bristol.ac.uk (KM)

Affiliation Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood – Sargent Research Unit, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: K Malik. Performed the experiments: AR Dallosso, AL Hancock, M Szemes, K Moorwood, L Chilukamarri, HH Tsai, A Sarkar, C Owen, S Malik, M Frank, KW Brown, K Malik. Analyzed the data: AR Dallosso, AL Hancock, KW Brown, K Malik. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J Barasch, R Vuononvirta, K Pritchard-Jones, B Royer-Pokora, SB Lee, M Frank, A Ward. Wrote the paper: K Malik. Devised array analysis: K Moorwood, KW Brown.