Yong Tang^1*, Jichun Chen, PhD² and Neal Young³

¹Hematology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD
²National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst., Bethesda, MD
³Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD

Xingmin Feng, PhD¹, Phillip Scheinberg, MD², Colin O. Wu, PhD^3*, Leigh Samsel^4*, Olga Nunez^1*, Courtney Prince^5*, Barbara Weinstein^1*, Rebecca D Ganetzky, B.A.^6*, J. Philip McCoy, PhD⁴, Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski, MD, PhD⁵ and Neal S. Young, MD¹

¹Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
²National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
³Office of Biostatistics Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
⁴Flow Cytometry Core, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
⁵Experimental Hematology and Hematopoiesis Section, Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
⁶Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Jichun Chen, Ph.D., Stephanie O. Omokaro, M.D.^*, Annahita K. Sarcon, M.S.^* and Neal Young, M.D.

Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD

W. Clark Lambert, MD, PhD^* and Monique M Brown, PhD^*

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ

Joel A Lefferts, Ph.D.^*, Chuan Wang, Ph.D.^*, Melissa Baralt, M.A.^* and Muriel W Lambert, PhD

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ

Antonio M. Risitano, MD, PhD¹, Elisa Seneca^1*, Ludovica Marando^1*, Bianca Serio^1*, Carmine Selleri^1*, Giulia Scalia^1*, Luigi Del Vecchio, MD^2*, Annapaola Iori, M.D.^3*, Alexander Kulagin^4*, Sebastien Maury^5*, Joerg Halter^6*, Vikas Gupta, MD, MRCP, MRCPath⁷, Andrea Bacigalupo, MD⁸, Gerard Socié^9*, Andre Tichelli^10*, Judith Marsh¹¹, Hubert Schrezenmeier^12*, Jakob R. Passweg, MD, MS¹³ and Bruno Rotoli^1*

¹Hematology, Federico II, Naples, Italy
²Hematology Unit - CEINGE and Dip. di Biochimica e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy, 80131, CEINGE, Naples, Italy
³Hematology La Sapienza
⁴Hematology, Institute of Clinical Immunology SB RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia
⁵Hematology, Hôpital Henri Mondor
⁶Hematology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
⁷Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
⁸Hem-Onc, Ospedale S. Martino, Genova, Italy
⁹Hematology / Transplantation, Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
¹⁰Hematology, University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland
¹¹King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
¹²Medical School, Ulm, Germany
¹³Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland

M. Reza Saadatzadeh, PhD^1*, Khadijeh Bijangi-Vishehsaraei, PhD^2* and Laura S. Haneline, MD³

¹Vascular Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
²Department of Pharmacology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
³Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Blanche P. Alter, MD, MPH¹, Gabriela Baerlocher, MD², Neelam Giri, MD³, Peter M. Lansdorp, MD, PhD⁴ and Sharon A Savage, MD, FAAP⁵

¹Clinical Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
²Dept. of Hematology, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland
³National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
⁴BC Cancer Research Centre, Terry Fox Laboratory, Vancouver, BC, Canada
⁵Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Gene, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD

Hannah Tamary, MD¹, Daniella Nishri, MD^1*, Joanne Yacobovich, MD^1*, Rama Zilber, RN^1*, Shraga Aviner, MD, PhD², Polina Stepensky, MD^3*, Shoshana S Vilk-Ravel^3*, Menachem Bitan^3*, Chaim Kaplinsky, MD^4*, Ayelet Ben Barak, MD^5*, Joseph Kapelusnik, MD^6*, Ariel Koren, MD^7*, Carina Levin, MD^1*, Isaac Yaniv, MD^1*, Philip S Rosenberg, PhD^8* and Blanche P. Alter, MD^9*

¹Schneider Children's Med. Ctr., Petah Tikva, Israel
²Pediatrics, The Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel
³Hadassah Medical Center, Israel
⁴Pediatric Hem/Onc, Sheba Medical Center, Israel
⁵Pediatric Hem/Onc, Rambam Medical Center, Israel
⁶Pediatric Hem/Onc, Soroka Medical Center, Israel
⁷Pediatric Hematology, Haemk Medical Center, Israel
⁸Biostatistics Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
⁹Clinical Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD

Victoria E. Ferrer Argote, MD, Hematologist¹, Christian O. Ramos Peñafiel, MD, Hematology, Resident^2*, Merit Hernández Sánchez, MD, Hematology, Resident^3*, Juan José García García, MD, M.S.^4*, Humberto Castellanos Sinco, Hematology, Resident^2*, Guadalupe León González, MD, Hematologist^2* and EfréN. Montaño Figueroa, MD, Hematologist^2*

¹Hematology, Hospital General de México, O.D., Mexico City, Mexico
²Hematology, Hospital General de Mexico, O.D., Mexico City, Mexico
³Hematology, Hospital General de Mexico, O.D., Mexico City
⁴Public Health, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Bing Han, MD, PhD^*, Bo Liu, MD, PhD^* and Yongqiang Zhao, MD, PhD^*

Dept. of Hematology, Peking Union Med. College Hosp., Beijing, China

John B Porter^1*, Gian Luca Forni^2*, Photis Beris³, Ali Taher⁴, Dany Habr^5*, Gabor Domokos^6*, Abdel Hmissi^6* and Maria Domenica Cappellini⁷

¹University College London, London, United Kingdom
²Ospedale Galliera, Genova, Italy
³Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
⁴American University Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
⁵Novartis, East Hanover, NJ
⁶Novartis, Basel, Switzerland
⁷Universitá di Milano, Policlinico Foundation IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Nao Yoshida, MD^1*, Hiroshi Yagasaki, MD.PhD^2*, Yoshiyuki Kosaka, MD.PhD^3*, Ryoji Kobayashi, MD.PhD^4*, Hiromasa Yabe, MD.PhD^5*, Takashi Kaneko, MD.PhD^6*, Masahiro Tsuchida, MD.PhD⁷, Akira Ohara, MD.PhD⁸, Tatsutoshi Nakahata, MD.PhD⁹ and Seiji Kojima, MD.PhD^2*

¹Division of Hematology and Oncology, Children's Medical Center, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
²Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
³Department of Hematology and Oncology, Kobe Children's Hospital, Kobe, Japan
⁴Department of Pediatrics, Sapporo Hokuyu Hospital, Sapporo, Japan
⁵Department of Cell Transplantation, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
⁶Department of Pediatrics, Kiyose Children's Hospital, Japan
⁷Department of Pediatrics, Ibaraki Children's Hospital, Japan
⁸Department of Pediatrics, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
⁹Department of Pediatrics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan