About the Authors

Mark P. Purdue

purduem@mail.nih.gov

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

Jonathan N. Hofmann

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

Joanne S. Colt

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

Mirjam Hoxha

Affiliations Center of Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Julie J. Ruterbusch

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences and Barbara Ann Karmanos Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Faith G. Davis

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Nathaniel Rothman

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

Sholom Wacholder

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

Kendra L. Schwartz

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Andrea Baccarelli

Affiliations Center of Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wong-Ho Chow

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WHC MPP. Performed the experiments: MH AB. Analyzed the data: MPP. Wrote the paper: MPP. Conducted the case-control study: JSC JJR FGD NR SW KLS WHC. Contributed to the data analysis: JNH SW. Contributed to the manuscript: MPP JNH JSC MH JJR FGD NR SW KLS AB WHC.