About the Authors

Jessica C. Price

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lana M. Pollock

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Meghan L. Rudd

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sarah K. Fogoros

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hassan Mohamed

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Christin L. Hanigan

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Matthieu Le Gallo

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) Comparative Sequencing Program

Affiliation Intramural Sequencing Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Suiyuan Zhang

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Pedro Cruz

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Praveen F. Cherukuri

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nancy F. Hansen

Affiliation Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kirk J. McManus

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Andrew K. Godwin

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Dennis C. Sgroi

Affiliation Molecular Pathology Unit and Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

James C. Mullikin

Affiliations Intramural Sequencing Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Maria J. Merino

Affiliation Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Philip Hieter

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Daphne W. Bell

belldaph@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DWB PH KJMcM. Performed the experiments: JCP LMP MLR SKF HM CLH MLG NISC. Analyzed the data: JCP LMP MLR SKF HM SZ PC PFC CLH MLG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NFH JCM AKG. Wrote the paper: DWB KJMcM. Pathological review of clinical material: MJM DCS.