About the Authors

Scott Newman

Current address: Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Hutchison/MRC Research Centre and Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Karen D. Howarth

Affiliation Hutchison/MRC Research Centre and Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Chris D. Greenman

Current address: The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Affiliation Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Graham R. Bignell

Affiliation Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Simon Tavaré

Affiliation CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Paul A. W. Edwards

pawe1@cam.ac.uk

Affiliation Hutchison/MRC Research Centre and Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SN PAWE. Performed the experiments: SN KDH. Analyzed the data: SN KDH CDG GRB ST PAWE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CDG GRB. Wrote the paper: SN KDH ST PAWE.