About the Authors

Julius Halaschek-Wiener

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mahsa Amirabbasi-Beik

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nasim Monfared

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Markus Pieczyk

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Christian Sailer

Affiliations Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Anita Kollar

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ruth Thomas

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Georgios Agalaridis

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

So Yamada

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lisa Oliveira

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jennifer A. Collins

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Graydon Meneilly

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Marco A. Marra

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kenneth M. Madden

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nhu D. Le

Affiliation Cancer Control Research, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Joseph M. Connors

Affiliation Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Angela R. Brooks-Wilson

abrooks-wilson@bcgsc.ca

Affiliations Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JVHW GM MAM NDL JMC ARBW. Performed the experiments: JVHW MAB NM MP CS AK RT GA SY LO JAC KMM ARBW. Analyzed the data: JVHW MAB NM MP CS AK RT GA SY LO JAC GM MAM KMM NDL JMC ARBW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM MAM KMM NDL JMC ARBW. Wrote the paper: JVHW ARBW. Recruitment of study subjects: LO JAC.