About the Authors
- Katherine S. Elliott
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Eleftheria Zeggini
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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
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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
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Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Patrick Sulem
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Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Simon N. Stacey
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Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Steinunn Thorlacius
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Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Laufey Amundadottir
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Henrik Grönberg
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Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Jianfeng Xu
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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
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Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
- Rosalind A. Eeles
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Affiliation Oncogenetics Team, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
- David E. Neal
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Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Jenny L. Donovan
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Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Freddie C. Hamdy
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Affiliation Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Kenneth Muir
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Affiliation Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
- Shih-Jen Hwang
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Affiliation Framingham Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Margaret R. Spitz
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Brent Zanke
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Affiliations Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, MaRS Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Luis Carvajal-Carmona
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Kevin M. Brown
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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
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Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Stuart Macgregor
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Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Ian P. M. Tomlinson
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Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Mathieu Lemire
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Affiliation Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, MaRS Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Christopher I. Amos
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Joanne M. Murabito
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Affiliation Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- William B. Isaacs
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Affiliation The Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Douglas F. Easton
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Affiliation Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Paul Brennan
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Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
- The PanScan Consortium
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- Rosa B. Barkardottir
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Affiliations Department of Pathology, Landspitali-University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Daniel F. Gudbjartsson
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Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Thorunn Rafnar
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Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- David J. Hunter
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Stephen J. Chanock
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Kari Stefansson
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Affiliation deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- John P. A. Ioannidis
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* E-mail: 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.