About the Authors

Neil Caporaso

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil Caporaso, Fangyi Gu, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Peter Kraft, Andrew W. Bergen

caporaso@nih.gov

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Fangyi Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil Caporaso, Fangyi Gu, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Peter Kraft, Andrew W. Bergen

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

Nilanjan Chatterjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil Caporaso, Fangyi Gu, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Peter Kraft, Andrew W. Bergen

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jin Sheng-Chih

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kai Yu

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Meredith Yeager

Affiliations Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Core Genotyping Facility, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Constance Chen

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

Kevin Jacobs

Affiliations Core Genotyping Facility, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America, BioInformed LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

William Wheeler

Affiliation Information Management Services, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Maria Teresa Landi

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Regina G. Ziegler

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David J. Hunter

Affiliations Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Core Genotyping Facility, Advanced Technology Center, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen Chanock

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Womens' Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan Hankinson

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

Peter Kraft

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil Caporaso, Fangyi Gu, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Peter Kraft, Andrew W. Bergen

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

Andrew W. Bergen

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil Caporaso, Fangyi Gu, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Peter Kraft, Andrew W. Bergen

Affiliation Molecular Genetics Program, Center for Health Sciences, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NEC FG NC DJH SJC SEH PK AWB. Performed the experiments: NEC NC KY MY CC KJ DJH SJC PK AWB. Analyzed the data: NEC FG NC JSC KY MY CC KJ WW MTL RGZ PK AWB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG NC JSC KY MY CC KJ WW PK AWB. Wrote the paper: NEC PK AWB. Critical review of manuscript: KJ MTL RGZ DJH SJC SEH. Graphic consultant: WW. Contributed to analysis: WW. Epidemiology and design of study: MTL RGZ. Co-originator of project: AWB.