About the Authors

Alpa V. Patel

apatel@cancer.org

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Iona Cheng

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Federico Canzian

Affiliation Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Loïc Le Marchand

Affiliation Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Michael J. Thun

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Christine D. Berg

Affiliation Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Julie Buring

Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eugenia E. Calle

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Stephen Chanock

Affiliation Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Francoise Clavel-Chapelon

Affiliation INSERM, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

David G. Cox

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Epidemiology Department, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Miren Dorronsoro

Affiliation Department of Public Health of Guipuzcoa, San Sebastian, Spain

Laure Dossus

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Christopher A. Haiman

Affiliation University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Susan E. Hankinson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brian E. Henderson

Affiliation University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Robert Hoover

Affiliation Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

David J. Hunter

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Epidemiology Department, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rudolf Kaaks

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Laurence N. Kolonel

Affiliation Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Peter Kraft

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Epidemiology Department, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jakob Linseisen

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Eiliv Lund

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsö, Tromsö, Norway

Jonas Manjer

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Catherine McCarty

Affiliation The Center for Human Genetics, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America

Petra H. M. Peeters

Affiliations Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Malcolm C. Pike

Affiliation University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michael Pollak

Affiliation Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Elio Riboli

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Daniel O. Stram

Affiliation University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Anne Tjonneland

Affiliation Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ruth C. Travis

Affiliation Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Dimitrios Trichopoulos

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

Rosario Tumino

Affiliation Cancer Registry Azienda Ospedaliera “Civile M.P. Arezzo”, Ragusa, Italy

Meredith Yeager

Affiliation Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Regina G. Ziegler

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

Heather Spencer Feigelson

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: SC. Analyzed the data: LD AP. Wrote the paper: AP. Other: Critical review: MT CB FC LL SC EC JB MD FC-C CH LD RH BH SH LK RK DH JM EL JL PK MP MCP PP CM HF RZ MY RT DT RCT AT DS ER IC. Expert advice: HF DH CH DC FC IC. Writing team: HF FC LL MT IC.