About the Authors

Emanuela Carlotti

Affiliation Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre Of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

David Wrench

Affiliation Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre Of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Guglielmo Rosignoli

Affiliation Flow Cytometry Core Facility, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre Of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Jacek Marzec

Affiliation Centre for Molecular Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre Of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Ajanthah Sangaralingam

Affiliation Centre for Molecular Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre Of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Lena Hazanov

Affiliation The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Miri Michaeli

Affiliation The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Simon Hallam

Affiliation Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre Of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Tracy Chaplin

Affiliation Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre Of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Sameena Iqbal

Affiliation Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre Of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Maria Calaminici

Affiliation Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre Of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Bryan Young

Affiliation Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre Of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Ramit Mehr

Affiliation The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Peter Campbell

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

Jude Fitzgibbon

Affiliation Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre Of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

John G. Gribben

j.gribben@qmul.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre Of Excellence, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EC JGG. Performed the experiments: EC DW GR TC. Analyzed the data: EC JM AS PC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LH MM SI BY RM. Wrote the paper: EC JF JGG. Provided clinical/histopathological data: SH MC.