About the Authors

Paritha I. Arumugam

Contributed equally to this work with: Paritha I. Arumugam, Fabrizia Urbinati

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Fabrizia Urbinati

Contributed equally to this work with: Paritha I. Arumugam, Fabrizia Urbinati

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Chinavenmeni S. Velu

Affiliation Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Tomoyasu Higashimoto

Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

H. Leighton Grimes

Affiliations Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Punam Malik

Punam.Malik@cchmc.org

Affiliations Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PM. Performed the experiments: PA. Analyzed the data: PA HLG PM. Wrote the paper: PA PM. Contributed to hypothesis, overall design of experiments: PM. Interpreted the data: PM PA HLG. Generated figures: PA. Generated the lentivirus vector backbone, cloned all the vectors used in this study, helped with titration of vectors, developed copy number standards for qPCR analysis: FU. Performed ChIP experiments: CSV. Performed molecular analysis on transplanted mice: TH. Contributed to design of epigenetic experiments: HLG.