About the Authors

Sungshim L. Park

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

Steven G. Carmella

Affiliation Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Menglan Chen

Affiliation Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Yesha Patel

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

Daniel O. Stram

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

Christopher A. Haiman

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

Loic Le Marchand

Affiliation University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Stephen S. Hecht

hecht002@umn.edu

Affiliation Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLP DOS CAH LLM SSH. Performed the experiments: SGC MC YP. Analyzed the data: SLP SSH DOS YP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SGC MC SSH. Wrote the paper: SLP DOS YP LLM CAH SSH.