About the Authors

Dannis G. van Vuurden

Contributed equally to this work with: Dannis G. van Vuurden, Maryam Yazdani

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Neuro-oncology Research Group, Cancer Center Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Maryam Yazdani

Contributed equally to this work with: Dannis G. van Vuurden, Maryam Yazdani

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Ingeborg Bosma

Affiliation Department of Neurology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Aart J. F. Broekhuizen

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Tjeerd J. Postma

Affiliation Department of Neurology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Jan J. Heimans

Affiliation Department of Neurology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Paul van der Valk

Affiliation Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Eleonora Aronica

Affiliation Department of Pathology, AMC University Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Bakhos A. Tannous

Affiliations Molecular Neurogenetics Unit, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas Würdinger

Affiliations Neuro-oncology Research Group, Cancer Center Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Molecular Neurogenetics Unit, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Gertjan J. L. Kaspers

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Jacqueline Cloos

j.cloos@vumc.nl

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Neuro-oncology Research Group, Cancer Center Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DGvV IB TJP JJH GLK JC. Performed the experiments: DGvV MY IB AJFB PvdV EA BAT. Analyzed the data: DGvV MY AJFB PvdV EA TW. Wrote the paper: DGvV TW.