About the Authors
- Peter Kraft
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Affiliation Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Paul Pharoah
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Affiliation CRC Human Cancer Genetics Research Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Stephen J Chanock
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Affiliation Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
- Demetrius Albanes
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Laurence N Kolonel
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Affiliation Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
- Richard B Hayes
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hayesr@mail.nih.gov
Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- David Altshuler
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Affiliation Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Gerald Andriole
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Affiliation Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Christine Berg
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Heiner Boeing
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam, Germany
- Noel P Burtt
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Affiliation Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita
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Affiliation Centre for Nutrition and Health, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
- Eugenia E Calle
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, National Home Office, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Howard Cann
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Affiliation Fondation Jean Dausset, Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain, Paris, France
- Federico Canzian
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Affiliation Genetic Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Yen-Ching Chen
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Affiliation Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- David E Crawford
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Affiliation Anschutz Cancer Pavillon, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
- Alison M Dunning
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Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Heather S Feigelson
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, National Home Office, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Matthew L Freedman
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Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- John M Gaziano
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ed Giovannucci
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Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Carlos Alberto Gonzalez
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Affiliation Catalan Institute of Oncology, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Christopher A Haiman
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Affiliation Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Goran Hallmans
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Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
- Brian E Henderson
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Affiliation Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Joel N Hirschhorn
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Affiliation Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- David J Hunter
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Affiliations Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Rudolf Kaaks
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Affiliation Hormones and Cancer Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Timothy Key
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Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research UK, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Loic Le Marchand
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Affiliation Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
- Jing Ma
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Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kim Overvad
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
- Domenico Palli
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Affiliation Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, CSPO-Scientific Institute of Tuscany, Florence, Italy
- Malcolm C Pike
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Affiliation Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Elio Riboli
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Affiliation Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Carmen Rodriguez
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Affiliation American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Wendy V Setiawan
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Meir J Stampfer
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Daniel O Stram
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Affiliation Division of Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Gilles Thomas
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Affiliation Fondation Jean Dausset, Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain, Paris, France
- Michael J Thun
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, National Home Office, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Ruth Travis
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Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research UK, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Antonia Trichopoulou
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Affiliation Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
- Jarmo Virtamo
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Affiliation Cancer Prevention Unit, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- Sholom Wacholder
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
M. J. Thun, E. Riboli, S. Chanock, D. Albanes, D. Hunter, R. B. Hayes, B. Henderson, and D. Stram formed the BPC3 Publications Committee. D. Albanes, L. Kolonel, R. B. Hayes, H. Boeing, B. Bueno-de-Mesquita, E. E. Calle, H. S. Feigelson, J. M. Gaziano, E. Giovannucci, C. A. Gonzalez, G. Hallmans, B. Henderson, T. Key, L. Le Marchand, J. Ma, K. Overvad, D. Palli, E. Riboli, C. Rodriguez, M. Stampfer, M. J. Thun, A. Trichopoulou, and J. Virtamo performed cohort recruitment and follow-up. S. Chanock, D. Stram, C. Haiman, D. Altshuler, M. Freedman, J. Hirschhorn, N. Burtt, G. Thomas, and H. Cann conducted gene sequencing and haplotype construction. D. J. Hunter, A. Dunning, S. Chanock, L. Le Marchand, C. Haiman, J. Hirschhorn, N. Burtt, and G. Thomas coordinated the genotyping. M. J. Thun, E. E. Calle, H. S. Feigelson, Y. C. Chen, P. Kraft, D. J. Hunter, J. Ma, R. Travis, S. Chanock, R. B. Hayes, B. Henderson, D. Stram, C. Haiman, W. Setiawan, D. Altshuler, M. Freedman, and J. Hirschhorn pooled, managed, and analyzed data. P. Kraft, R. Kaaks, P. Pharoah, S. Wacholder, D. Stram, M. Pike, and G. Thomas developed statistical methodology and oversaw analysis. P. Kraft, P. Pharoah, S. Chanock, D. Albanes, L. Kolonel, and R. B. Hayes wrote the paper.