About the Authors

Maria Teresa Landi

*E-mail: landim@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tatiana Dracheva

Affiliation Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Melissa Rotunno

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jonine D. Figueroa

Affiliations Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Cancer Prevention Fellowship, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Huaitian Liu

Affiliation Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Abhijit Dasgupta

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Felecia E. Mann

Affiliation Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Junya Fukuoka

Affiliation Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Megan Hames

Affiliation Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Andrew W. Bergen

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sharon E. Murphy

Affiliation Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota Cancer Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Ping Yang

Affiliation Department of Health Science, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Angela C. Pesatori

Affiliation Foundation OM Policlinic, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Dario Consonni

Affiliation Foundation OM Policlinic, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Pier Alberto Bertazzi

Affiliation Foundation OM Policlinic, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Sholom Wacholder

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Joanna H. Shih

Affiliation Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Neil E. Caporaso

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil E. Caporaso, Jin Jen

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jin Jen

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil E. Caporaso, Jin Jen

Affiliation Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW JJ ML JS PB NC. Performed the experiments: TD HL FM JF MH SM. Analyzed the data: SW JJ ML JF JS DC AP PB TD MR AD AB NC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJ PY ML PB NC. Wrote the paper: ML. Other: Participated in data interpretation: DC PB PY AP AD JF TD HL AB SM JJ NC JS SW MR. Read and approved the manuscript: JJ NC DC PB PY AP JF AB SM HL TD AD JS SW MR. Interpreted the data: ML.