About the Authors

Nigel P. S Crawford

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Xiaolan Qian

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Argyrios Ziogas

Affiliation Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Alex G Papageorge

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Brenda J Boersma

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Renard C Walker

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Luanne Lukes

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

William L Rowe

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jinghui Zhang

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Stefan Ambs

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Douglas R Lowy

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hoda Anton-Culver

Affiliation Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Kent W Hunter

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hunterk@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Population Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

NPSC, SA, DRL, HAC, and KWH conceived and designed the experiments. NPSC, XQ, AGP, BJB, RCW, and LL performed the experiments. NPSC, XQ, AZ, AGP, WHR, JZ, SA, DRL, HAC, and KWH analyzed the data. BJB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. NPSC, SA, and KWH wrote the paper.