About the Authors

Christopher A. Haiman

haiman@usc.edu

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

Gary K. Chen

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

William J. Blot

Affiliations International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Sara S. Strom

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sonja I. Berndt

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rick A. Kittles

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Benjamin A. Rybicki

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

William B. Isaacs

Affiliation James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sue A. Ingles

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

Janet L. Stanford

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

W. Ryan Diver

Affiliation Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

John S. Witte

Affiliation Institute for Human Genetics, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Stephen J. Chanock

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Suzanne Kolb

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lisa B. Signorello

Affiliations International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yuko Yamamura

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christine Neslund-Dudas

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Michael J. Thun

Affiliation Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Adam Murphy

Affiliation Department of Urology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Graham Casey

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

Xin Sheng

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

Peggy Wan

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

Loreall C. Pooler

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

Kristine R. Monroe

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

Kevin M. Waters

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

Loic Le Marchand

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

Laurence N. Kolonel

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

Daniel O. Stram

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

Brian E. Henderson

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAH. Performed the experiments: SJC LP. Analyzed the data: CAH GKC XS PW DOS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJB SSS SIB RK BR WBI SAI JS WRD JSW SJC SK LBS YY CND MJT AM GC KRM KMW LLM LNK BEH. Wrote the paper: CAH.