About the Authors

Fabricio F. Costa

m-soares@northwestern.edu (MBS); fcosta@childrensmemorial.org (FFC)

Affiliation Cancer Biology and Epigenomics Program, Children's Memorial Research Center and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jared M. Bischof

Contributed equally to this work with: Jared M. Bischof, Elio F. Vanin

Affiliation Cancer Biology and Epigenomics Program, Children's Memorial Research Center and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Elio F. Vanin

Contributed equally to this work with: Jared M. Bischof, Elio F. Vanin

Affiliation Cancer Biology and Epigenomics Program, Children's Memorial Research Center and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Rishi R. Lulla

Affiliations Cancer Biology and Epigenomics Program, Children's Memorial Research Center and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Pediatric Neuro-oncology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Min Wang

Affiliation Cancer Biology and Epigenomics Program, Children's Memorial Research Center and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Simone T. Sredni

Affiliation Cancer Biology and Epigenomics Program, Children's Memorial Research Center and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Veena Rajaram

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Medicine, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Maria de Fátima Bonaldo

Affiliation Cancer Biology and Epigenomics Program, Children's Memorial Research Center and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Deli Wang

Affiliation Biostatistics Research Core, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Stewart Goldman

Affiliation Pediatric Neuro-oncology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Tadanori Tomita

Affiliation Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Marcelo B. Soares

m-soares@northwestern.edu (MBS); fcosta@childrensmemorial.org (FFC)

Affiliation Cancer Biology and Epigenomics Program, Children's Memorial Research Center and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FFC JMB EFV RRL MW VR STS DW MFB TT SG MBS. Performed the experiments: FFC JMB EFV MFB. Analyzed the data: FFC JMB EFV RRL DW. Wrote the paper: FFC. Conducted statistical analyses: DW.