About the Authors

Hector Alvarez

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joanna Opalinska

Contributed equally to this work with: Joanna Opalinska, Li Zhou

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Li Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Joanna Opalinska, Li Zhou

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Davendra Sohal

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Melissa J. Fazzari

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Yiting Yu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Christina Montagna

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Elizabeth A. Montgomery

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Marcia Canto

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kerry B. Dunbar

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jean Wang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Juan Carlos Roa

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile

Yongkai Mo

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Tushar Bhagat

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

K. H. Ramesh

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Linda Cannizzaro

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

J. Mollenhauer

Affiliation Molecular Oncology, Medical Biotechnology Center, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Reid F. Thompson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Masako Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Stephen Meltzer

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ari Melnick

Affiliation Weil Cornell College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

John M. Greally

john.greally@einstein.yu.edu (JM Greally); amaitra1@jhmi.edu (A Maitra); averma@aecom.yu.edu (A Verma)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Anirban Maitra

john.greally@einstein.yu.edu (JM Greally); amaitra1@jhmi.edu (A Maitra); averma@aecom.yu.edu (A Verma)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Amit Verma

john.greally@einstein.yu.edu (JM Greally); amaitra1@jhmi.edu (A Maitra); averma@aecom.yu.edu (A Verma)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: A Verma, JC Roa, Y Mo, KH Ramesh, A Maitra. Performed the experiments: H Alvarez, J Opalinska, L Zhou, C Montagna, T Bhagat, L Cannizzaro. Analyzed the data: H Alvarez, D Sohal, MJ Fazzari, Y Yu, RF Thompson, M Suzuki, SJ Meltzer, A Melnick. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EA Montgomery, M Canto, KB Dunbar, J Wang, J Mollenhauer. Wrote the paper: A Verma, A Maitra.