About the Authors

Raquel Villegas

raquel.villegas@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Ryan Delahanty

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yu-Tang Gao

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, Peoples’ Republic of China

Jirong Long

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Scott M. Williams

Affiliation Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Yong-Bing Xiang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, Peoples’ Republic of China

Hui Cai

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Hong-Lan Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, Peoples’ Republic of China

Frank Hu

Affiliation School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Qiuyin Cai

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Wei Zheng

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Xiao-Ou Shu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ XS. Performed the experiments: YG JL YX HL FH QC. Analyzed the data: RV RD SW HC. Wrote the paper: RV. Provided critical review of the manuscript: RD YG JL SW YX HL FH QC WZ XS.