About the Authors

Yuan Lu

Affiliation Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Sarra L. Ryan

Affiliation Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

David J. Elliott

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Graham R. Bignell

Affiliation Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

P. Andrew Futreal

Affiliation Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

David W. Ellison

Affiliation Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Simon Bailey

Affiliation Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Steven C. Clifford

s.c.clifford@ncl.ac.uk

Affiliation Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL SR GB PAF SB SCC. Performed the experiments: YL SR GB. Analyzed the data: YL SR GB PAF SCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL DJE GB PAF DE SB SCC. Wrote the paper: YL SB SCC.