About the Authors

Geòrgia Escaramís

Contributed equally to this work with: Geòrgia Escaramís, Cristian Tornador, Laia Bassaganyas

Affiliations Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

Cristian Tornador

Contributed equally to this work with: Geòrgia Escaramís, Cristian Tornador, Laia Bassaganyas

Affiliations Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

Laia Bassaganyas

Contributed equally to this work with: Geòrgia Escaramís, Cristian Tornador, Laia Bassaganyas

Affiliations Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

Raquel Rabionet

Affiliations Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

Jose M. C. Tubio

Affiliations Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain, Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine-SERGAS, Complexo Hospitalitario Universitario de Santiago (CHUS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Alexander Martínez-Fundichely

Affiliations Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain, Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Mario Cáceres

Affiliations Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain, Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

Marta Gut

Affiliation National Center of Genomic Analysis (CNAG-CRG), Barcelona, Spain

Stephan Ossowski

Affiliations Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain, Genomic and Epigenomic Variation in Disease Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain

Xavier Estivill

xavier.estivill@crg.eu

Affiliations Genetic Causes of Disease Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GE LB JMCT XE. Performed the experiments: MG. Analyzed the data: GE LB RR SO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG. Wrote the paper: GE CT LB. Designed the software: GE CT LB JMCT AMF MC. Programmed the software: GE CT RR. Critically revised the manuscript: RR JMCT AMF MC MG SO XE.