About the Authors

David S. Lopez

David.S.Lopez@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas- Houston School of Public Health, Houston, TX, United States of America, Division of Urology, University of Texas- Houston Medical School, Houston, TX, United States of America

Run Wang

Affiliation Division of Urology, University of Texas- Houston Medical School, Houston, TX, United States of America

Konstantinos K. Tsilidis

Affiliation Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece

Huirong Zhu

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas- Houston School of Public Health, Houston, TX, United States of America

Carrie R. Daniel

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

Arup Sinha

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, University of Texas- Houston School of Public Health, Houston, TX, United States of America

Steven Canfield

Affiliation Division of Urology, University of Texas- Houston Medical School, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL SC RW. Performed the experiments: HZ AS. Analyzed the data: HZ AS. Wrote the paper: DL KT CD SC RW.