About the Authors

Yufei Wang

Affiliation Section of Cancer Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom

Peter Broderick

Affiliation Section of Cancer Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom

Athena Matakidou

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Timothy Eisen

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Richard S. Houlston

richard.houlston@icr.ac.uk

Affiliation Section of Cancer Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The work was partially supported by commercial funder Sanofi-Anventis. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The commercial funder Sanofi-Aventis has declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSH TE AM. Performed the experiments: PB. Analyzed the data: YW. Wrote the paper: RSH.