About the Authors

Kathryn Anastos

kanastos@verizon.net

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Population Health, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Donald R. Hoover

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Robert D. Burk

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Antonio Cajigas

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Qiuhu Shi

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Diljeet K. Singh

Affiliation Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mardge H. Cohen

Affiliation John Stroger (formerly Cook County) Hospital and Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Eugene Mutimura

Affiliation Women's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment, Kigali, Rwanda

Charles Sturgis

Affiliation Providence Regional Medical Center, Everette, Washington, United States of America

William C. Banzhaf

Affiliation University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Philip E. Castle

Affiliation National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KA MHC PC. Performed the experiments: KA RDB AC DKS MHC CS WCB. Analyzed the data: DRH QS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RDB AC CS WCB. Wrote the paper: KA DRH DKS MHC EM PC.