About the Authors
- Jennifer Prescott
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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
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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
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Stephen J. Chanock
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Tina Audley
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Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Judith Brown
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Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Jean Leyland
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Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Elizabeth Folkerd
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Affiliation Academic Department of Biochemistry, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Deborah Doody
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Affiliation Academic Department of Biochemistry, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Susan E. Hankinson
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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
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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
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Mitch Dowsett
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Affiliation Academic Department of Biochemistry, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- David G. Cox
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer Prescott, Deborah J. Thompson, David G. Cox, Douglas F. Easton, Immaculata De Vivo
* E-mail: 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
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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
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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.