About the Authors

Fang Fang

fang.fang@channing.harvard.edu

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Julie L. Kasperzyk

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

Irene Shui

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Whitney Hendrickson

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

Bruce W. Hollis

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Katja Fall

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden

Jing Ma

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

J. Michael Gaziano

Affiliations Divisions of Preventive Medicine and Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Massachusetts Veteran's Epidemiology, Research and Information Center, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Meir J. Stampfer

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

Lorelei A. Mucci

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

Edward Giovannucci

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FF LAM EG . Performed the experiments: BWH. Analyzed the data: FF JLK IS WH BWH KF JM JMG MJS LAM EG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJS LAM EG. Wrote the paper: FF JLK IS WH KF JM JMG MJS LAM EG.