About the Authors

Miriam Ragle Aure

Contributed equally to this work with: Miriam Ragle Aure, Israel Steinfeld, Lars Oliver Baumbusch

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, K. G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Israel Steinfeld

Contributed equally to this work with: Miriam Ragle Aure, Israel Steinfeld, Lars Oliver Baumbusch

Affiliation Laboratory of Computational Biology, Computer Science Department, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Lars Oliver Baumbusch

Contributed equally to this work with: Miriam Ragle Aure, Israel Steinfeld, Lars Oliver Baumbusch

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Knut Liestøl

Affiliations Biomedical Informatics Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Doron Lipson

Affiliation Laboratory of Computational Biology, Computer Science Department, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Sandra Nyberg

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, K. G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Bjørn Naume

Affiliation Division of Cancer Medicine and Radiotherapy, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Kristine Kleivi Sahlberg

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, K. G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Vessela N. Kristensen

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, K. G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Molecular Biology (EpiGen) Akershus University Hospital, Akershus, Norway

Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway, K. G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Ole Christian Lingjærde

ole@ifi.uio.no (OCL); zohar_yakhini@agilent.com (ZY)

Affiliations K. G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Biomedical Informatics Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Zohar Yakhini

ole@ifi.uio.no (OCL); zohar_yakhini@agilent.com (ZY)

Affiliations Laboratory of Computational Biology, Computer Science Department, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Agilent Laboratories, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

One author (Zohar Yakhini) is affiliated with Agilent Laboratories, Tel Aviv, Israel. This does not alter the authors‚ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Designed the software used in the analysis: MRA IS OCL ZY. Data analysis: MRA IS LOB KL OCL ZY. Interpretation of results: MRA IS LOB KL KKS ALBD OCL ZY. Conceived and designed the experiments: MRA SN BN KKS VNK ALBD OCL ZY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IS KL DL BN KKS VNK ALBD OCL ZY. Wrote the paper: MRA OCL IS LOB ALBD OCL ZY.