About the Authors

Johanna M. Schuetz

Affiliation Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Denise Daley

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Stephen Leach

Affiliation Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lucia Conde

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Brian R. Berry

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Richard P. Gallagher

Affiliation Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Joseph M. Connors

Affiliation Division of Medical Oncology and Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Randy D. Gascoyne

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Paige M. Bracci

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Christine F. Skibola

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

John J. Spinelli

Affiliations Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Angela R Brooks-Wilson

abrooks-wilson@bcgsc.ca

Affiliations Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RPG CFS JJS AB-W. Performed the experiments: JMS SL LC BRB JMC RDG. Analyzed the data: JMS DD PMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DD SL BRB JMC JJS AB-W. Wrote the paper: JMS AB-W.