About the Authors

Jennifer Prescott

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Prescott, Deborah J. Thompson, David G. Cox, Douglas F. Easton, Immaculata De Vivo

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Deborah J. Thompson

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Prescott, Deborah J. Thompson, David G. Cox, Douglas F. Easton, Immaculata De Vivo

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Peter Kraft

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stephen J. Chanock

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

Tina Audley

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Judith Brown

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jean Leyland

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Elizabeth Folkerd

Affiliation Academic Department of Biochemistry, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Deborah Doody

Affiliation Academic Department of Biochemistry, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Susan E. Hankinson

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

David J. Hunter

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin B. Jacobs

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

Mitch Dowsett

Affiliation Academic Department of Biochemistry, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom

David G. Cox

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Prescott, Deborah J. Thompson, David G. Cox, Douglas F. Easton, Immaculata De Vivo

david.cox@lyon.unicancer.fr

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cancer Research Center of Lyon, INSERM U1052 – CNRS UMR5286, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France

Douglas F. Easton

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Prescott, Deborah J. Thompson, David G. Cox, Douglas F. Easton, Immaculata De Vivo

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Immaculata De Vivo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Prescott, Deborah J. Thompson, David G. Cox, Douglas F. Easton, Immaculata De Vivo

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, 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: DGC DFE IDV. Performed the experiments: JP DJT. Analyzed the data: JP DJT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PK SJC TA JB JL EF DD SEH DJH KBJ MD. Wrote the paper: JP DJT DGC.