About the Authors

Christopher A. Haiman

haiman@usc.edu (CAH); stram@usc.edu (DOS)

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

Ying Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Han, Ye Feng

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

Ye Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Han, Ye Feng

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

Lucy Xia

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

Chris Hsu

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

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

Yesha Patel

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

Laurence N. Kolonel

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

Erin Carter

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

Karen Park

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

David Van Den Berg

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

Daniel O. Stram

haiman@usc.edu (CAH); stram@usc.edu (DOS)

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 BEH LLM DOS. Performed the experiments: LX XS LCP DVDB EC KP. Analyzed the data: YH YF YP CH CAH DOS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LNK LLM BEH. Wrote the paper: CAH DOS YH YF.