About the Authors

Sheetal Hardikar

Affiliations Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lynn Onstad

Affiliation Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Patricia L. Blount

Affiliations Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Robert D. Odze

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brian J. Reid

Affiliations Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thomas L. Vaughan

tvaughan@u.washington.edu

Affiliations Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH TLV BJR PLB. Performed the experiments: SH PLB RDO. Analyzed the data: SH LO. Wrote the paper: SH TLV. Reviewed manuscript: SH LO PLB RDO BJR TLV. Read and approved the final manuscript: SH LO PLB RDO BJR TLV.