About the Authors

Jill Koshiol

koshiolj@mail.nih.gov

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

Roberto Flores

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

Tram K. Lam

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

Philip R. Taylor

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

Stephanie J. Weinstein

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

Jarmo Virtamo

Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Demetrius Albanes

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

Guillermo Perez-Perez

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Neil E. Caporaso

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil E. Caporaso, Martin J. Blaser

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

Martin J. Blaser

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil E. Caporaso, Martin J. Blaser

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JK NEC DA PRT SJW JV. Performed the experiments: GPP MJB. Analyzed the data: JK RF TKL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GPP MJB. Wrote the paper: JK.