About the Authors

Christopher Ricketts

Affiliation Cancer Research UK Renal Molecular Oncology Group, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, University of Birmingham School of Medicine, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Maurice P. Zeegers

Affiliations Unit of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Department of Complex Genetics, Cluster of Genetics and Cell Biology and Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht (NUTRIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Jan Lubinski

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Eamonn R. Maher

e.r.maher@bham.ac.uk

Affiliations Cancer Research UK Renal Molecular Oncology Group, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, University of Birmingham School of Medicine, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom, West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CR ERM. Performed the experiments: CR. Analyzed the data: CR MZ ERM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL. Wrote the paper: CR ERM. Critically revised the manuscript: MZ JL.