About the Authors

Armand Valsesia

Affiliations Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Donata Rimoldi

Affiliation Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland

Danielle Martinet

Affiliation Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Mark Ibberson

Affiliation Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Paola Benaglio

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Manfredo Quadroni

Affiliation Protein Analysis Facility, Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Patrice Waridel

Affiliation Protein Analysis Facility, Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Muriel Gaillard

Affiliation Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Mireille Pidoux

Affiliation Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Blandine Rapin

Affiliation Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Carlo Rivolta

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Ioannis Xenarios

Affiliation Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Andrew J. G. Simpson

Affiliation Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, New York, New York, United States of America

Stylianos E. Antonarakis

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Jacques S. Beckmann

Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

C. Victor Jongeneel

Affiliations Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland, Institute for Genomic Biology and National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Christian Iseli

Christian.Iseli@unil.ch (CI); Brian.Stevenson@unil.ch (BJS)

Affiliations Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Brian J. Stevenson

Christian.Iseli@unil.ch (CI); Brian.Stevenson@unil.ch (BJS)

Affiliations Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AV AJGS BJS CI CVJ DR JSB SEA. Performed the experiments: BR DM DR MG MP MQ PB PW. Analyzed the data: AV CI MI MQ PW. Wrote the paper: AV BJS CVJ DR. Provided expertise for the Network-guided analysis: IX. Supervised CGH experiments: DM JSB. Supervised SNP experiments: CR. Interpreted the data: AV BJS DR.