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Co-Authorship Statement<br />

<strong>Chapter</strong>s 2 to 5 were co-authored as manuscripts for publication. The following author lists<br />

apply for each chapter:<br />

<strong>Chapter</strong> 2: Chari R, Coe BP, Wedselt<strong>of</strong>t C, Benetti M, Wilson IM, Vucic EA, MacAulay C, Ng<br />

RT, Lam WL. (2008) SIGMA2: a system for the integrative genomic multi-dimensional analysis<br />

<strong>of</strong> cancer genomes, epigenomes, and transcriptomes. BMC Bioinformatics, 9(1):422, 1-12.<br />

Contribution: I am the first author <strong>of</strong> this manuscript. I designed and developed the s<strong>of</strong>tware<br />

and wrote the manuscript. The co-authors <strong>of</strong> this manuscript were either undergraduate<br />

students who I mentored on this project or were fellow graduate students who tested the<br />

s<strong>of</strong>tware and provided important user feedback.<br />

<strong>Chapter</strong> 3: Chari R, Coe BP, Vucic EA, Lockwood WW, Lam WL. (2010) An integrative multidimensional<br />

genetic and epigenetic strategy to identify aberrant genes and pathways in cancer.<br />

BMC Systems Biology, 4(1):67, 1-14.<br />

Contribution: I am the first author <strong>of</strong> this manuscript. I acquired most <strong>of</strong> the data through<br />

generating genomic pr<strong>of</strong>iles and downloaded the rest <strong>of</strong> the data from public resources. I<br />

conceived the analysis for the manuscript and wrote the manuscript.<br />

<strong>Chapter</strong> 4: Chari R, Lockwood WW, Soh J, Coe BP, Tam K, MacAulay C, Minna JD, Lam S,<br />

Gazdar AF, Lam WL. (2010) Uniparental disomy is a prevalent mechanism <strong>of</strong> genetic alteration<br />

in lung adenocarcinoma.<br />

Contribution: I am the first author <strong>of</strong> this manuscript. I generated all <strong>of</strong> the data and performed<br />

all <strong>of</strong> the analyses for this manuscript and my co-authors provided useful information through<br />

comments and other supporting data.<br />

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