About the Authors

Mitsutaka Kadota

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Howard H. Yang

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bianca Gomez

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Misako Sato

Affiliation Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robert J. Clifford

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Daoud Meerzaman

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Barbara K. Dunn

Affiliation Basic Prevention Science Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lalage M. Wakefield

Affiliation Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Maxwell P. Lee

leemax@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK LMW MPL. Performed the experiments: MK BG MS. Analyzed the data: MK HHY RC MPL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM. Wrote the paper: MK BKD LMW MPL.