About the Authors

Pamela Thompson

pamela.thompson@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliation Paediatric & Familial Cancer Research Group, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom

Kevin Urayama

Affiliations School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics and Disease Diversity, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Jie Zheng

Affiliations School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology, and Research), Biopolis, Singapore

Peng Yang

Affiliation Data Analytics Department, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore

Matt Ford

Affiliation Research Computing Services, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Patricia Buffler

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Anand Chokkalingam

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Tracy Lightfoot

Affiliation University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom

Malcolm Taylor

Affiliation Independent Researcher, Handforth, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PT KU JZ PY MF PB AC TL MT. Performed the experiments: PT PY MF MT. Analyzed the data: PT KU JZ PY MF MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ PY MF PB TL. Wrote the paper: PT KU JZ PY MF PB AC TL MT.