About the Authors

Idan Menashe

Contributed equally to this work with: Idan Menashe, Jonine D. Figueroa

menashei@mail.nih.gov

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

Jonine D. Figueroa

Contributed equally to this work with: Idan Menashe, Jonine D. Figueroa

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

Montserrat Garcia-Closas

Affiliation Institute for Cancer Research, Surrey, United Kingdom

Nilanjan Chatterjee

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

Nuria Malats

Affiliation Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Antoni Picornell

Affiliation Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Dennis Maeder

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

Qi Yang

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

Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson

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

Zhaoming Wang

Affiliation Core Genotype Facility, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Francisco X. Real

Affiliations Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Kevin B. Jacobs

Affiliation Core Genotype Facility, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Dalsu Baris

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

Michael Thun

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

Demetrius Albanes

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

Mark P. Purdue

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

Manolis Kogevinas

Affiliations Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, Municipal Institute of Medical Research, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece

Amy Hutchinson

Affiliation Core Genotype Facility, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Yi-Ping Fu

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

Wei Tang

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

Laurie Burdette

Affiliation Core Genotype Facility, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Adonina Tardón

Affiliation CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

Consol Serra

Affiliations CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Alfredo Carrato

Affiliation Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Reina García-Closas

Affiliation Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain

Josep Lloreta

Affiliation Hospital del Mar-Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Alison Johnson

Affiliation Vermont Cancer Registry, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Molly Schwenn

Affiliation Maine Cancer Registry, Augusta, Maine, United States of America

Alan Schned

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

Gerald Andriole Jr.

Affiliation Department of Urology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Amanda Black

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

Eric J. Jacobs

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

Ryan W. Diver

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

Susan M. Gapstur

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

Stephanie J. Weinstein

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

Jarmo Virtamo

Affiliation National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Neil E. Caporaso

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

Maria Teresa Landi

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

Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr.

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

Stephen J. Chanock

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

Debra T. Silverman

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

Nathaniel Rothman

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, 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: IM JDF MG NC SJC DTS NR. Performed the experiments: ZW KBJ AH LB. Analyzed the data: IM JF QY DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NM AP LP FXR MT DA MPP MK YF WT AT CS AC RG JL AJ MS AS GA AB AJJ RWD SMG SJW JV NEC MTL JFF. Wrote the paper: IM JF.