About the Authors

Emily Vogtmann

emily.vogtmann@nih.gov

Affiliations Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xing Hua

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Georg Zeller

Affiliation Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Shinichi Sunagawa

Affiliation Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Anita Y. Voigt

Affiliations Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Applied Tumor Biology, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Clinical Cooperation Unit Applied Tumor Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU), University Hospital Heidelberg and European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Rajna Hercog

Affiliation Genomics Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

James J. Goedert

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jianxin Shi

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peer Bork

Affiliations Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU), University Hospital Heidelberg and European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Department of Bioinformatics Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Rashmi Sinha

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GZ SS AYV RH JJG PB RS. Performed the experiments: GZ SS AYV RH PB. Analyzed the data: EV XH GZ JS. Wrote the paper: EV XH GZ SS AYV RH JJG JS PB RS.