About the Authors

Sanoj Punnen

Contributed equally to this work with: Sanoj Punnen, Jill Hardin

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jill Hardin

Contributed equally to this work with: Sanoj Punnen, Jill Hardin

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Institute for Human Genetics, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Iona Cheng

Affiliation Epidemiology Program, University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States of America

Eric A. Klein

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute and Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

John S. Witte

wittej@humgen.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Institute for Human Genetics, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP JH IC EK JW. Performed the experiments: SP JH IC EK JW. Analyzed the data: SP JH JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH EK JW. Wrote the paper: SP JH IC EK JW.