About the Authors

Steven Buyske

Affiliations Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Ying Wu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Cara L. Carty

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Iona Cheng

Affiliation University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Themistocles L. Assimes

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Logan Dumitrescu

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Lucia A. Hindorff

Affiliation Office of Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sabrina Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jose Luis Ambite

Affiliation Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Eric Boerwinkle

Affiliation Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Petra Buzkova

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Chris S. Carlson

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Barbara Cochran

Affiliation Sponsored Programs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

David Duggan

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Charles B. Eaton

Affiliation Center for Primary Care and Prevention, Department of Family Medicine and Epidemiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Megan D. Fesinmeyer

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nora Franceschini

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jeffrey Haessler

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nancy Jenny

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Hyun Min Kang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Charles Kooperberg

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Yi Lin

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Loic Le Marchand

Affiliation University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Tara C. Matise

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Jennifer G. Robinson

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Carlos Rodriguez

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Fredrick R. Schumacher

Affiliation Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Benjamin F. Voight

Affiliation Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alicia Young

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Teri A. Manolio

Affiliation Office of Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Karen L. Mohlke

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher A. Haiman

Affiliation Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ulrike Peters

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Dana C. Crawford

Affiliations Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Kari E. North

kari_north@unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CLC LD LAH PB CSC DD HMK CK LLM JGR FRS TAM CAH UP KEN. Performed the experiments: PB BC DD CAH UP KEN. Analyzed the data: SB YW TLA LAH SM JLA PB JH TAM DCC KEN MDF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB PB CBE NJ CK YL TCM JGR CR FRS BFV AY KEN. Wrote the paper: SB YW CLC IC TLA LD LAH SM PB NF FRS BFV TAM KLM CAH UP DCC KEN MDF. Scientific management: LAH TAM.