About the Authors

Tim Lammens

Contributed equally to this work with: Tim Lammens, Katrien Swerts

tim.lammens@ugent.be

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Katrien Swerts

Contributed equally to this work with: Tim Lammens, Katrien Swerts

Current address: IWT, Koning Albert II-laan 35 bus 16, Brussels, Belgium

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Lara Derycke

Current address: Upper Airways Research Laboratory, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology and Experimental Cancer Research, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Annemie De Craemer

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Sara De Brouwer

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Katleen De Preter

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Nadine Van Roy

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Jo Vandesompele

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Frank Speleman

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Jan Philippé

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Yves Benoit

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Klaus Beiske

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Marc Bracke

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology and Experimental Cancer Research, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Geneviève Laureys

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS JV FS JP YB MB GL KDP. Performed the experiments: TL KS LD ADC KB SDB. Analyzed the data: TL KS LD NVR KB. Wrote the paper: TL.