About the Authors

Peter Kraft

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul Pharoah

Affiliation CRC Human Cancer Genetics Research Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stephen J Chanock

Affiliation Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

Demetrius Albanes

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Laurence N Kolonel

Affiliation Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Richard B Hayes

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

Affiliation Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gerald Andriole

Affiliation Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Christine Berg

Affiliation Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Heiner Boeing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam, Germany

Noel P Burtt

Affiliation Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita

Affiliation Centre for Nutrition and Health, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

Eugenia E Calle

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, National Home Office, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Howard Cann

Affiliation Fondation Jean Dausset, Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain, Paris, France

Federico Canzian

Affiliation Genetic Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Yen-Ching Chen

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David E Crawford

Affiliation Anschutz Cancer Pavillon, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Alison M Dunning

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Heather S Feigelson

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, National Home Office, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Matthew L Freedman

Affiliation Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

John M Gaziano

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ed Giovannucci

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carlos Alberto Gonzalez

Affiliation Catalan Institute of Oncology, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Christopher A Haiman

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

Goran Hallmans

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden

Brian E Henderson

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

Joel N Hirschhorn

Affiliation Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

David J Hunter

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

Affiliation Hormones and Cancer Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Timothy Key

Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research UK, Oxford, United Kingdom

Loic Le Marchand

Affiliation Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Jing Ma

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

Kim Overvad

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Domenico Palli

Affiliation Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, CSPO-Scientific Institute of Tuscany, Florence, Italy

Malcolm C Pike

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

Elio Riboli

Affiliation Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Carmen Rodriguez

Affiliation American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Wendy V Setiawan

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Meir J Stampfer

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel O Stram

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

Affiliation Fondation Jean Dausset, Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain, Paris, France

Michael J Thun

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, National Home Office, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ruth Travis

Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research UK, Oxford, United Kingdom

Antonia Trichopoulou

Affiliation Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

Jarmo Virtamo

Affiliation Cancer Prevention Unit, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Sholom Wacholder

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.