About the Authors

Katherine S. Elliott

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Eleftheria Zeggini

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Applied Statistical Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mark I. McCarthy

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Julius Gudmundsson

Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland

Patrick Sulem

Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland

Simon N. Stacey

Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland

Steinunn Thorlacius

Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland

Laufey Amundadottir

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Henrik Grönberg

Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jianfeng Xu

Affiliations Center for Cancer Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Human Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Valerie Gaborieau

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Rosalind A. Eeles

Affiliation Oncogenetics Team, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom

David E. Neal

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jenny L. Donovan

Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Freddie C. Hamdy

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Kenneth Muir

Affiliation Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Shih-Jen Hwang

Affiliation Framingham Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Margaret R. Spitz

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Brent Zanke

Affiliations Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, MaRS Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Luis Carvajal-Carmona

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Kevin M. Brown

Affiliation Integrated Cancer Genomics Division, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Australian Melanoma Family Study Investigators

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Nicholas K. Hayward

Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Stuart Macgregor

Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Ian P. M. Tomlinson

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Mathieu Lemire

Affiliation Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, MaRS Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Christopher I. Amos

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Joanne M. Murabito

Affiliation Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

William B. Isaacs

Affiliation The Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Douglas F. Easton

Affiliation Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Paul Brennan

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

The PanScan Consortium

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Rosa B. Barkardottir

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Landspitali-University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Daniel F. Gudbjartsson

Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland

Thorunn Rafnar

Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland

David J. Hunter

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stephen J. Chanock

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kari Stefansson

Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland

John P. A. Ioannidis

jioannid@cc.uoi.gr

Affiliations Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine and Biomedical Research Institute, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Ioannina, Greece, Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Modelling, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KSE EZ MIM JPAI. Analyzed the data: KSE JPAI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KSE JG PS SNS ST LTA HG JX VG RAE DEN JLD FCH KM SJH MRS BZ LCC KMB AMFSI NKH SM IPT ML CIA JMM WBI DFE PB PC RB DFG TR DJH SJC KS. Wrote the paper: KSE EZ MIM JG JPAI.