About the Authors

Shusuke Akamatsu

Affiliations Laboratory for Biomarker Development, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Atsushi Takahashi

Affiliation Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan

Ryo Takata

Affiliations Laboratory for Biomarker Development, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Urology, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Michiaki Kubo

Affiliation Laboratory for Genotyping Development, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan

Takahiro Inoue

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Takashi Morizono

Affiliation Laboratory for Medical Informatics, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan

Tatsuhiko Tsunoda

Affiliation Laboratory for Medical Informatics, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan

Naoyuki Kamatani

Affiliation Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan

Christopher A. Haiman

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Peggy Wan

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Gary K. Chen

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Loic Le Marchand

Affiliation Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Centre, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Laurence N. Kolonel

Affiliation Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Centre, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Brian E. Henderson

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tomoaki Fujioka

Affiliation Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan

Tomonori Habuchi

Affiliation Department of Urology, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

Yusuke Nakamura

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Ogawa

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Hidewaki Nakagawa

hidewaki@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory for Biomarker Development, Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA RT YN OO HN. Performed the experiments: SA AT TI CAH. Analyzed the data: SA AT RT TM TT NK CAH PW GKC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TI MK TM TT NK CAH LLM LNK BEH TF TH YN OO. Wrote the paper: SA AT CAH HN.