About the Authors

Nicolas Wentzensen

wentzenn@mail.nih.gov

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

Amanda Black

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

Kevin Jacobs

Affiliation Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Hannah P. Yang

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

Christine D. Berg

Affiliation Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Neil Caporaso

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

Ulrike Peters

Affiliation Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lawrence Ragard

Affiliation Westat, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Saundra S. Buys

Affiliation Oncology Division, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Stephen Chanock

Affiliations Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Patricia Hartge

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

Competing Interests

LR is employed by Westat, Inc., a company that serves as the PLCO Study Coordinating Center. This relationship does not influence the authors' adherence to the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NW PH. Performed the experiments: KJ SC. Analyzed the data: NW AB HPY PH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NW AB KJ HPY CDB NC UP LR SSB SC PH. Wrote the paper: NW AB HPY CDB SC PH. Contributed genotyping data: NC UP.