About the Authors

Holger Heyn

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC), Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08908 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Humberto J. Ferreira

Contributed equally to this work with: Humberto J. Ferreira, Lluís Bassas

Affiliations Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC), Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08908 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Lluís Bassas

Contributed equally to this work with: Humberto J. Ferreira, Lluís Bassas

Affiliation Laboratory of Seminology and Embryology, Andrology Service-Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Sandra Bonache

Current address: Oncogenetics Laboratory, University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Affiliation Human Molecular Genetics Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08908 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Sergi Sayols

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC), Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08908 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Juan Sandoval

Affiliation Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC), Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08908 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Manel Esteller

mesteller@idibell.cat

These authors are joint senior authors of this work.

Affiliations Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC), Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08908 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Department of Physiological Sciences II, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Sara Larriba

These authors are joint senior authors of this work.

Affiliation Human Molecular Genetics Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08908 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH ME SL. Performed the experiments: HH HJF JS SS SB. Analyzed the data: HH HJF LB SB SS JS ME SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LB SL. Wrote the paper: HH ME SL.