About the Authors

Jennifer Prescott

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter Kraft

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel I. Chasman

Affiliation Donald W. Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sharon A. Savage

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

Lisa Mirabello

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

Sonja I. Berndt

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

Joel L. Weissfeld

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jiali Han

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard B. Hayes

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Stephen J. Chanock

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

David J. Hunter

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Immaculata De Vivo

devivo@channing.harvard.edu

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DJH IDV. Performed the experiments: JP DIC SJC DJH. Analyzed the data: JP PK DIC IDV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PK DIC SAS LM SIB JLW JH RBH SJC DJH IDV. Wrote the paper: JP PK DIC SAS LM SIB JLW DJH IDV.