About the Authors

Galina Lurie

glurie@crch.hawaii.edu

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Mia M. Gaudet

Affiliation Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Amanda B. Spurdle

Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Post Office Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

Michael E. Carney

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Lynne R. Wilkens

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Hannah P. Yang

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Noel S. Weiss

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Penelope M. Webb

Affiliation Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Post Office Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

Pamela J. Thompson

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Keith Terada

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Veronica Wendy Setiawan

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Timothy R. Rebbeck

Affiliations University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Abramson Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jennifer Prescott

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Irene Orlow

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Tracy O'Mara

Affiliations Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Post Office Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, Hormone Dependent Cancer Group, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Sara H. Olson

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Steven A. Narod

Affiliation Women's College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rayna K. Matsuno

Affiliations Cancer Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jolanta Lissowska

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, M. Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland

Xiaolin Liang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Douglas A. Levine

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Loic Le Marchand

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Laurence N. Kolonel

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Brian E. Henderson

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Montserrat Garcia-Closas

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jennifer Anne Doherty

Affiliation Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Immaculata De Vivo

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chu Chen

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Louise A. Brinton

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mohammad R. Akbari

Affiliation Women's College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Australian National Endometrial Cancer Study Group
Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer Consortium (E2C2)
Marc T. Goodman

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Competing Interests

One of the authors, Dr. Mia Gaudet is employed by the American Cancer Society (since October 4th 2010). Dr Gaudet contributed the data for the Polish Endometrial Cancer Study that was funded by the National Cancer Institute. Her current employment by the American Cancer Society does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MTG GL MEC KT. Performed the experiments: MTG GL MMG ABS HPY PNW PJT VWS TRR JP IO TO SHO SAN RKM JL DAL MGC JAD IDV CC MRA. Analyzed the data: GL LRW XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMG ABS MEC HPY NSW PMW KT VWS TRR JP IO TO SHO SAN JL DAL LLM LNK BEH MGC JAD IDV CC LAB MRA. Wrote the paper: GL MMG ABS MEC LRW MTG.