About the Authors

Yan Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Cui, Ying Ying

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, Sir YK Pao Center for Cancer, Department of Clinical Oncology, Hong Kong Cancer Institute and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Ying Ying

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Cui, Ying Ying

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, Sir YK Pao Center for Cancer, Department of Clinical Oncology, Hong Kong Cancer Institute and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Andrew van Hasselt

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Ka Man Ng

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, Sir YK Pao Center for Cancer, Department of Clinical Oncology, Hong Kong Cancer Institute and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Jun Yu

Affiliation Institute of Digestive Disease, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Qian Zhang

Affiliation Department of Urology, Peking University 1st Hospital & Institute of Urology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Jie Jin

Affiliation Department of Urology, Peking University 1st Hospital & Institute of Urology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Dingxie Liu

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Johng S. Rhim

Affiliation Center for Prostate Disease Research, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sun Young Rha

Affiliation Yonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Myriam Loyo

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Anthony T. C. Chan

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, Sir YK Pao Center for Cancer, Department of Clinical Oncology, Hong Kong Cancer Institute and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Gopesh Srivastava

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

George S. W. Tsao

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Grant C. Sellar

Current address: Wyeth Research, Translational Medicine Research Collaboration, Dundee, United Kingdom

Affiliation Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Oncology Unit, University of Edinburgh Cancer Research Center, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Joseph J. Y. Sung

Affiliation Institute of Digestive Disease, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

David Sidransky

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Qian Tao

qtao@clo.cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliations Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China, Sir YK Pao Center for Cancer, Department of Clinical Oncology, Hong Kong Cancer Institute and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Johns Hopkins Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC YY QT. Performed the experiments: YC YY KMN QT. Analyzed the data: AH JY QZ JJ DL JR SYR ML AC GS GT GS JJS DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH JY QZ JJ DL JR SYR ML AC GS GT GS JJS DS. Wrote the paper: YC YY QT.