About the Authors

Kevin Y. Urayama

kurayama@luke.or.jp

Affiliations School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Center for Clinical Epidemiology, St. Luke’s Life Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Anand P. Chokkalingam

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Catherine Metayer

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Helen Hansen

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Neuroepidemiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Suzanne May

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Patricia Ramsay

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Joseph L. Wiemels

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Neuroepidemiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

John K. Wiencke

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Neuroepidemiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Elizabeth Trachtenberg

Affiliation Center for Genetics, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Pamela Thompson

Affiliation Cancer Immunogenetics, University of Manchester, St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom

Yasushi Ishida

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Ehime Prefectural Center Hospital, Ehime, Japan

Paul Brennan

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

Kent W. Jolly

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Kaiser Permanente, Roseville, California, United States of America

Amanda M. Termuhlen

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Jonathan Jaques Children’s Cancer Center, Miller Children’s Hospital, Long Beach, California, United States of America

Malcolm Taylor

Affiliation Handforth, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Lisa F. Barcellos

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Patricia A. Buffler

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KYU APC CM JLW JKW ET PB MT LFB PAB. Performed the experiments: KYU APC HH SM PR KJ AT. Analyzed the data: KYU APC SM PR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KYU HH SM PR PT YI. Wrote the manuscript: KYU APC.