About the Authors

Vera Ignjatovic

verai@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliations Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Cera Lai

Affiliations Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Robyn Summerhayes

Affiliations Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Ulrike Mathesius

Affiliation Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Sherif Tawfilis

Affiliation GE Healthcare Life Sciences Australia, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

Matthew A. Perugini

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Paul Monagle

Affiliations Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Clinical Haematology, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

Sherif Tawfilis is an employee of GE Healthcare. This did not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors http://www.plosone.org/static/policies.action#sharing.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VI ST PM. Performed the experiments: VI CL RS ST. Analyzed the data: VI CL ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UM MAP. Wrote the manuscript: VI PM.