About the Authors

Traci Mouw

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Public Health & Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Annemarie Koster

Affiliations Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Margaret E. Wright

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Madeleine M. Blank

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Steven C. Moore

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Albert Hollenbeck

Affiliation AARP, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Arthur Schatzkin

schatzka@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARH AS. Performed the experiments: AS. Analyzed the data: TM AK MMB SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW MMB SM ARH. Wrote the paper: TM AK MW AS.