About the Authors

Michael D. Swartz

Michael.D.Swartz@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliations Division of Biostatistics, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christine B. Peterson

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Philip J. Lupo

Affiliation Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xifeng Wu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michele R. Forman

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Margaret R. Spitz

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ladia M. Hernandez

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Marina Vannucci

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sanjay Shete

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRS XW MDS MRF. Performed the experiments: MRS MRF XW. Analyzed the data: MDS SS LMH CBP MV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW. Wrote the paper: MDS CBP PJL LMH MRS MRF SS MV.