About the Authors

Eloi Mercier

Contributed equally to this work with: Eloi Mercier, Arnaud Droit, Leping Li

Affiliation Computational Biology Unit, Institut de Recherche Clinique de Montreal, Montreal, Canada

Arnaud Droit

Contributed equally to this work with: Eloi Mercier, Arnaud Droit, Leping Li

Affiliations Computational Biology Unit, Institut de Recherche Clinique de Montreal, Montreal, Canada, Department of Molecular Medecine, Faculty of Medicine, Endocrinology and Genomics, Centre de Recherche du CHUQ (CRCHUQ), Laval University, Quebec, Canada

Leping Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Eloi Mercier, Arnaud Droit, Leping Li

Affiliation Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Gordon Robertson

Affiliation BC Cancer Agency, Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver, Canada

Xuekui Zhang

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

Raphael Gottardo

rgottard@fhcrc.org

Affiliation Vaccine and Infections Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EM AD LL GR XZ RG. Performed the experiments: EM AD LL XZ GR RG. Analyzed the data: EM AD LL XZ GR RG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EM AD LL XZ GR RG. Wrote the paper: EM AD LL XZ GR RG.