About the Authors

Christine F. Skibola

chrisfs@berkeley.edu

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

Paige M. Bracci

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Eran Halperin

Affiliation International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Alexandra Nieters

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Alan Hubbard

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

Randi A. Paynter

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

Danica R. Skibola

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

Luz Agana

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

Nikolaus Becker

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Patrick Tressler

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Matthew S. Forrest

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Sriram Sankararaman

Affiliation International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Lucia Conde

Affiliations School of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Elizabeth A. Holly

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Martyn T. Smith

Affiliation School of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, 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: CFS RAP MTS. Performed the experiments: AN RAP DRS LA. Analyzed the data: PRB EH AN AH SS. Wrote the paper: CFS. Performed pathology: PT. Performed bioinformatics: MSF LC. PI of U.S. study: EAH. PI of German study: NB.