Tadeusz Robak, MD, PhD¹, Sergey I Moiseev, MD^2*, Anna Dmoszynska, MD^3*, Philippe Solal-Céligny, MD^4*, Krzysztof Warzocha, MD, PhD^5*, Javier Loscertales, MD^6*, John Catalano, MD⁷, Boris V Afanasiev, MD^8*, Loree Larratt, MD⁹, Christian Geisler, MD, DMSc¹⁰, Marco Montillo, MD¹¹, Peter Ganly, BMBCh, PhD^12*, Caroline Dartigeas, MD^13*, András Rosta, MD, PhD^14*, Ann Janssens, MD^15*, Myriam Mendila, MD^16*, Jörg Maurer^16* and Michael K. Wenger, MD^16*

¹Dept of Haematology, Medical University, Lodz, Poland
²Hematology Department, Saint Petersburg Pavlov State Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
³Klinika Hematoonkologii i Transplantacji, Szpiku Akademii Medycznej w Lublinie, Lublin, Poland
⁴Department of Hematolgy, Clinique Victor Hugo, Le Mans, France
⁵Instytut Hematologii I Transfuzjologii, Klinika Chorob Wewnetrznychi Hematologii, Warsaw, Poland
⁶Dept. Hematology, Hopital de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain
⁷Dorevitch Pathology Laboratory, Frankston Hospital, Frankston, Australia
⁸BMT Centre of Saint Petersburg, Pavlov State Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
⁹Dept of Hematology, 2E3.33 Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton, Canada
¹⁰Haematology Departement, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
¹¹Divisione Ematologia, Ospedale Niguarda, Milano, Italy
¹²Department of Haematology, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand
¹³Service d'Hématologie et Thérapie Cellulaire, CHU de Tours, Tours, France
¹⁴"A" Department of Medicine, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
¹⁵UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
¹⁶Pharmaceuticals Division, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland

Marina Cavazzana-Calvo, MD, PhD¹, Chantal Lagresle-Peyrou^2*, Emmanuelle M Six^2*, Capucine Picard, MD^2*, Frederic Rieux-Laucat^2*, Vincent Michel^3*, Andrea Ditadi^2*, Corinne Demerens-de-Chappedelaine^2*, Estelle Morillon^2*, Françoise Valensi^2*, Karen L Simon-Stoos^4*, James C Mullikin^5*, Lenora M Noroski^6*, Céline Besse^7*, Nicolas Wulffraat^8*, Alina Ferster, MD, PhD⁹, Manuel M Abecasis, MD^10*, Fabien Calvo, MD, PhD^11*, Christine Petit, PhD^3*, Fabio Candotti, MD⁵, Laurent Abel, PhD^12* and Alain Fischer, MD, PhD^13*

¹Inserm Research Unit U-768, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes, IFR94, AP-HP Hopital Necker Enfants-Malades, Paris, France
²Inserm Research Unit U-768, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes, IFR94, Paris, France
³Unité de Génétique et Physiologie de l'Audition, UMRS587, INSERM, Université Paris VI, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
⁴Genetics & Molecular Biology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
⁵Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
⁶Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
⁷Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, France
⁸Department of Immunology/BMT, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
⁹Hémato-oncologie pédiatrique, Children's University Hospital Reine Fabiola, Brussels, Belgium
¹⁰Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Instituto Português de Oncologia, Lisboa, Portugal
¹¹Clinical Investigation Center, INSERM U716, INSERM, APHP Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
¹²Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, INSERM U-550, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes, 75015, France
¹³Service d'Immunologie et Hematologie Pediatrique, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes, IFR94, AP-HP Hopital Necker Enfants-Malades, Paris, France

Francois Delhommeau^1*, Sabrina Dupont^2*, Chloe James, MD, PhD³, Aline Masse^2*, Jean Pierre le Couedic^2*, Veronique Della Valle^3*, Antonio Alberdi^4*, Philippe Dessen^5*, Michaela Fontenay^6*, Nicole Casadevall, MD⁷, Jean Soulier, MD, PhD⁴, Olivier Bernard^8* and William Vainchenker⁹

¹Hematology, Paris 6 University Pierre et Marie Curie, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, France
²U790, Inserm, Villejuif, France
³Universite Bordeaux 2, INSERM U876, Bordeaux, France
⁴Hematology Laboratory, Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
⁵Genomics, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
⁶Groupe Francophone des Myelodysplasies, France
⁷Laboratoire d'Hematologie, Hopital St Antoine, Paris, France
⁸INSERM E0210, Hopital Necker ; Université Paris V, Paris, France
⁹INSERM U790, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

Paris Margaritis^1*, Elise Roy^1*, Majed N Aljamali^1*, Harre Downey^1*, Shangzhen Zhou^1*, Elizabeth Merricks^2*, Aaron Dillow^2*, Timothy C Nichols^2* and Katherine A. High, MD³

¹Hematology Research, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
²Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
³Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Lewis Hsu, MD, PhD¹, Kenneth I Ataga, M.D.^2*, Victor R. Gordeuk, MD³, Paul S. Swerdlow, MD⁴, Abdullah Kutlar, MD^5*, Wally Smith, MD^6*, J. Martin Johnston, MD^7*, Ian A Chen, MD, MPH, FACP^8*, Anne Greist, MD⁹, Frances Flug, MD¹⁰, Susumu Inoue, MD¹¹, Olise M. Nwose, MBBS, MRCPath^12*, Saba Sile, MD^12* and Emil Kakkis, MD, PhD^12*

¹Pediatrics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
²Medicine/ Hematology, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
³Howard University, Washington, DC
⁴4Medicine/Hematology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
⁵Anesthesiology & Periop. Med., Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
⁶Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
⁷Memorial Health University Medical Center, Savannah, GA
⁸Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA
⁹Indiana Hemophilia & Thrombosis Ctr., Indianapolis, IN
¹⁰Hackensack Univ. Medical Ctr., Hackensack, NJ
¹¹Hurley Medical Center, Flint, MI
¹²BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Novato, CA

Julia Bohlius, MD, MScPH^1*, Corinne Brillant^2*, Michael Clarke, PhD^3*, Sabine Kluge^2*, Maryann Napoli^4*, Margaret Piper, PhD, MPH^5*, Dirk Rades, MD, PhD^6*, Isabelle Ray-Coquard, MD^7*, Kurt Schmidlin, MD, MPH^1*, Martin Schumacher, PhD^8*, Guido Schwarzer, PhD^8*, Jerome Seidenfeld, MSc, PhD⁵, David P. Steensma, MD, FACP⁹, Sven Trelle, MD^1*, Michael Untch, MD^10*, Olaf Weingart, MD^2*, Marcel Zwahlen, PhD^1*, Matthias Egger, MD, MSc^1* and Andreas Engert, MD²

¹University of Bern, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
²Cochrane Haematological Malignancies Group, Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
³National Institute for Health Research, UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom
⁴Center for Medical Consumers, Cochrane Consumer Network, New York
⁵Technology Evaluation Center, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Chicago, IL
⁶University Hospital Lübeck, Department of Radiation Oncology, Lübeck, Germany
⁷Centre Leon-Berard, Lyon, France
⁸University Medical Center Freiburg, Department of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Freiburg, Germany
⁹Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN
¹⁰Clinic for Gynecology, Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany