About the Authors

Daniel D. Buchanan

Affiliations Familial Cancer Laboratory, QIMR, Herston, Queensland, Australia, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Kevin Sweet

Affiliation Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Musa Drini

Affiliation Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Canberra Hospital, Garran, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Mark A. Jenkins

Affiliation Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Aung Ko Win

Affiliation Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Dallas R. English

Affiliation Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Michael D. Walsh

Affiliations Familial Cancer Laboratory, QIMR, Herston, Queensland, Australia, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Mark Clendenning

Affiliation Familial Cancer Laboratory, QIMR, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Diane M. McKeone

Affiliation Familial Cancer Laboratory, QIMR, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Rhiannon J. Walters

Affiliation Familial Cancer Laboratory, QIMR, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Aedan Roberts

Affiliation Familial Cancer Laboratory, QIMR, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Sally-Ann Pearson

Affiliation Familial Cancer Laboratory, QIMR, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Erika Pavluk

Affiliation Familial Cancer Laboratory, QIMR, Herston, Queensland, Australia

John L. Hopper

Affiliation Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Michael R. Gattas

Affiliation Queensland Clinical Genetics Service, Royal Children's Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Jack Goldblatt

Affiliations School of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Genetic Services of Western Australia, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia

Jill George

Affiliation Genetic Services of Western Australia, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia

Graeme K. Suthers

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, South Australian Clinical Genetics Service, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Kerry D. Phillips

Affiliation South Australian Clinical Genetics Service, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Sonja Woodall

Affiliation Familial GI Cancer Registry, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

Julie Arnold

Affiliation Familial GI Cancer Registry, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

Kathy Tucker

Affiliation Hereditary Cancer Clinic, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia

Amanda Muir

Affiliation Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Michael Field

Affiliation Department of Clinical Genetics, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sian Greening

Affiliation Illawarra Cancer Centre, Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Steven Gallinger

Affiliations Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, D. Zane Cohen Digestive Diseases Clinical Research Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Renee Perrier

Affiliation University of British Columbia and BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

John A. Baron

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

John D. Potter

Affiliation Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Robert Haile

Affiliation USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wendy Frankel

Affiliation Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Albert de la Chapelle

Affiliation Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Finlay Macrae

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Medicine and Genetics, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Christophe Rosty

Affiliations Familial Cancer Laboratory, QIMR, Herston, Queensland, Australia, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Neal I. Walker

Affiliation Envoi Pathology, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Susan Parry

Affiliations Familial GI Cancer Registry, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand, Department of Gastroenterology, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

Joanne P. Young

Joanne.Young@qimr.edu.au

Affiliations Familial Cancer Laboratory, QIMR, Herston, Queensland, Australia, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DDB KS MD AKW MJ DRE MDW MC DM RJW AR SAP EP JLH MRG JG JG GKS KDP SW JA KT AM MF SG SG RP JB JP RH WF AdlC FM CR NIW SP JPY. Performed the experiments: DDB MDW MC DM RJW AR SAP CR NIW SP. Analyzed the data: AKW MJ DRE MC AR SAP EP JLH SP JPY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS MD AKW MJ DRE MDW DM EP MRG JG JG GKS KDP SW JA KT AM MF SG SG RP JB JP RH WF AdlC FM CR NIW SP. Wrote the paper: DDB RH CR SP JPY. Co-wrote the paper: DB. Ascertainment of cases: KS MD DM MG J. Goldblatt J. George GS KP SW JA KT AM MF S. Greening S. Gallinger RP FM. Critical review of manuscript: KS MD AKW MJ MG J. Goldblatt GS KT MF S. Gallinger JB JP RH WF AdlC CR NW SP. Data analysis: AKW MJ EP. Data design: AKW. Data interpretation: AKW MJ DE MC AR JH. Genetic epidemiologist: DE JH. Critical review of final draft: DE MW MC DM RW AR SAP EP JH J. George KP SW JA AM S. Greening RP FM. Histologist: MW SAP. Data acquisition: MW DM SAP. Pathology review: MW. Molecular biologist: MC AR. Telephone interviews: DM. Designed and performed BRAF assays: RW. Wrote methods section: RW. Histological analysis: SAP. Data retrieval, assembly: EP. Clinical geneticist: MG J. Goldblatt GS KT MF. Epidemiologist: JB. Smoking expert advice: JB. Expert epidemiologist: JP RH. Analysis advice: JP RH. Wrote passages of manuscript: RH. Gastrointestinal pathologist: WF CR NW. Pathology advice: WF CR NW. Genetics expert: AdlC. Genetics advice: AdlC. Gastroenterologist: FM SP. Clinical advice: FM SP. Obtained funding: JY.