About the Authors

Vincent Roy

Affiliation Le Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de l'Université Laval, L'Hôtel Dieu de Québec, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Québec, Canada

Karim Ghani

Affiliation Le Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de l'Université Laval, L'Hôtel Dieu de Québec, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Québec, Canada

Manuel Caruso

manuel.caruso@crhdq.ulaval.ca

Affiliation Le Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de l'Université Laval, L'Hôtel Dieu de Québec, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

VR and MC are inventors on a patent application entitled "Dph2 gene mutant and uses thereof" US patent application (12/305008). Filed June 18, 2007. The authors do not have any other competing interests. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VR MC. Performed the experiments: VR KG MC. Analyzed the data: VR KG MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VR KG MC. Wrote the paper: VR MC.