About the Authors

Hongxia Ma

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Ziyuan Zhou

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sheng Wei

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Zhensheng Liu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Karen A. Pooley

Affiliation Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Alison M. Dunning

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ulrika Svenson

Affiliation Department of Medical Biosciences/Pathology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Göran Roos

Affiliation Department of Medical Biosciences/Pathology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

H. Dean Hosgood III

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

Min Shen

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

Qingyi Wei

qwei@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QYW. Performed the experiments: HXM ZYZ. Analyzed the data: HXM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KP AD US GR HDH MS. Wrote the paper: HXM. Revised the paper: SW ZSL.