About the Authors

Sam Behjati

Contributed equally to this work with: Sam Behjati, Mariana Maschietto

Affiliations Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mariana Maschietto

Contributed equally to this work with: Sam Behjati, Mariana Maschietto

Affiliation Unit of Molecular Haematology and Cancer Biology, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Richard D. Williams

Affiliation Unit of Molecular Haematology and Cancer Biology, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Lucy Side

Affiliation Departments of Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Mike Hubank

Affiliation Unit of Molecular Haematology and Cancer Biology, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Rebecca West

Affiliation Unit of Molecular Haematology and Cancer Biology, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Katie Pearson

Affiliation Unit of Molecular Haematology and Cancer Biology, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Neil Sebire

Affiliation Departments of Histopathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Patrick Tarpey

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

Andrew Futreal

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

Tony Brooks

Affiliation Unit of Molecular Haematology and Cancer Biology, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Michael R. Stratton

Affiliation Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

John Anderson

J.anderson@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Unit of Molecular Haematology and Cancer Biology, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB MM JA LS MH. Performed the experiments: SB MM R. Williams R. West KP TB. Analyzed the data: SB MM R. Williams NS PT AF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS. Wrote the paper: MM SB JA.