About the Authors

Gordon Fehringer

Affiliation Prosserman Centre for Health Research, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Geoffrey Liu

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Laurent Briollais

Affiliation Prosserman Centre for Health Research, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Paul Brennan

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Christopher I. Amos

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Margaret R. Spitz

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Heike Bickeböller

Affiliation Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

H. Erich Wichmann

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg, Germany

Angela Risch

Affiliation Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Rayjean J. Hung

Rayjean.hung@lunenfeld.ca

Affiliation Prosserman Centre for Health Research, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GF RJH GL LB. Analyzed the data: GF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PB CIA MRS HB HEW AR RJH. Wrote the paper: GF.