About the Authors

Maria A. Hahn

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Xiwei Wu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Arthur X. Li

Affiliation Department of Information Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Torsten Hahn

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Gerd P. Pfeifer

gpfeifer@coh.org

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Under a licensing agreement between City of Hope and Active Motif (Carlsbad, CA) the methylated-CpG island recovery assay (MIRA) technique was licensed to Active Motif, and the author G.P.P. is entitled to a share of the royalties received by City of Hope from sales of the licensed technology.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAH GPP. Performed the experiments: MAH. Analyzed the data: MAH XW AXL TH GPP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW AXL. Wrote the paper: MAH XW GPP.