About the Authors

Craig April

Affiliation Illumina, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Brandy Klotzle

Affiliation Illumina, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Thomas Royce

Affiliation Illumina, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Eliza Wickham-Garcia

Affiliation Illumina, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Tanya Boyaniwsky

Affiliation Illumina, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

John Izzo

Affiliation Illumina, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Donald Cox

Affiliation Expression Analysis, Inc., Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Wendell Jones

Affiliation Expression Analysis, Inc., Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Renee Rubio

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kristina Holton

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ursula Matulonis

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John Quackenbush

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jian-Bing Fan

jfan@illumina.com

Affiliation Illumina, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

CA, BK, TR, TB, JI, and JBF are employees of Illumina, Inc. DC and WJ are employees of Expression Analysis, Inc. The study used the whole-genome DASL product developed at Illumina.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CA TB JI WDJ UM JQ JBF. Performed the experiments: CA BK EWG DC RR KH. Analyzed the data: CA TR DC WDJ JBF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC WDJ RR KH UM JQ. Wrote the paper: CA JBF.