About the Authors

Howard H. Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Howard H. Yang, Nan Hu

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

Nan Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Howard H. Yang, Nan Hu

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

Chaoyu Wang

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

Ti Ding

Affiliation Shanxi Cancer Hospital, Taiyuan, Shanxi, People's Republic of China

Barbara K. Dunn

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

Alisa M. Goldstein

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

Philip R. Taylor

ptaylor@mail.nih.gov (PRT); leemax@mail.nih.gov (MPL)

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

Maxwell P. Lee

ptaylor@mail.nih.gov (PRT); leemax@mail.nih.gov (MPL)

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: NH AMG PRT MPL. Performed the experiments: NH CW. Analyzed the data: HHY MPL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TD. Wrote the paper: HHY BKD PRT MPL.