About the Authors

Phuong L. Mai

Contributed equally to this work with: Phuong L. Mai, Nilanjan Chatterjee

maip@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Clinical Genetic Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Nilanjan Chatterjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Phuong L. Mai, Nilanjan Chatterjee

Affiliation Biostatistics Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Patricia Hartge

Affiliation Office of Director of the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Program, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Margaret Tucker

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Lawrence Brody

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffery P. Struewing

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Sholom Wacholder

Affiliation Biostatistics Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC PH MT LB JPS SW. Performed the experiments: NC PH MT LB JPS SW. Analyzed the data: PLM NC SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NC. Wrote the paper: PLM NC PH SW.