About the Authors

Sarah S. Knox

sknox@hsc.wvu.edu

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Mary Babb Randolf Cancer Center, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgontown, West Virginia, United States of America

Xinxin Guo

Affiliation Outcome Sciences Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yuqing Zhang

Affiliation Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

G. Weidner

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, California, United States of America

Scott Williams

Affiliation Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

R. Curtis Ellison

Affiliation Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SSK GW SMW RCE. Analyzed the data: XG YZ. Wrote the paper: SSK. Interpreted data: XG YZ RCE. Edited paper: XG YZ RCE. Substantial edits to paper: GW SMW.