About the Authors

Kana Wu

kana.wu@channing.harvard.edu

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

Diane Feskanich

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

Charles S. Fuchs

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew T. Chan

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

Walter C. Willett

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

Bruce W. Hollis

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

Michael N. Pollak

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Oncology, Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Edward Giovannucci

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

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Dr. Bruce Hollis is an academic consultant to the DiaSorin Corp. Dr. Andrew Chan previously served as a consultant to Bayer Healthcare and Millennium Pharmaceuticals for scientific meetings unrelated to subject of this paper. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Contributed to conception and design: ATC CSF EG WCW KW. Acquisition of data: ATC CSF EG WCW. Analysis of data: KW. Interpretation of data: ATC DF CSF EG BWH MNP WCW KW. Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content: ATC DF CSF EG BWH MNP WCW KW. Approved the final version to be published: ATC DF CSF EG BWH MNP WCW KW.