About the Authors

Maria J. Camões

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria J. Camões, Paula Paulo

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal, Cancer Genetics Group, Research Centre of the Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal

Paula Paulo

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria J. Camões, Paula Paulo

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal, Cancer Genetics Group, Research Centre of the Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal

Franclim R. Ribeiro

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal, Cancer Genetics Group, Research Centre of the Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal

João D. Barros-Silva

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal, Cancer Genetics Group, Research Centre of the Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal

Mafalda Almeida

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal, Cancer Epigenetics Group, Research Centre of The Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal

Vera L. Costa

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal, Cancer Epigenetics Group, Research Centre of The Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal

Nuno Cerveira

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal, Cancer Genetics Group, Research Centre of the Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal

Rolf I. Skotheim

Affiliations Department of Cancer Prevention, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Ragnhild A. Lothe

Affiliations Department of Cancer Prevention, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Rui Henrique

Affiliations Cancer Epigenetics Group, Research Centre of The Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal, Department of Pathology, Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal, Department of Pathology and Molecular Immunology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Carmen Jerónimo

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal, Cancer Epigenetics Group, Research Centre of The Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal, Department of Pathology and Molecular Immunology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Manuel R. Teixeira

manuel.teixeira@ipoporto.min-saude.pt

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal, Cancer Genetics Group, Research Centre of the Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto, Porto, Portugal, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Pathology and Molecular Immunology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRT. Performed the experiments: MJC PP JDBS MA VLC. Analyzed the data: MJC PP FRR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NC RIS RAL RH CJ. Wrote the paper: MRT PP.