About the Authors

Christopher S. Carlson

ccarlson@fhcrc.org

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Tara C. Matise

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Kari E. North

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher A. Haiman

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

Megan D. Fesinmeyer

Affiliation Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Steven Buyske

Affiliation Department of Statistics & Biostatistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Fredrick R. Schumacher

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

Ulrike Peters

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nora Franceschini

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Marylyn D. Ritchie

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David J. Duggan

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Kylee L. Spencer

Affiliation Department of Biology & Environmental Science at Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, United States of America

Logan Dumitrescu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Charles B. Eaton

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Brown University, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States of America

Fridtjof Thomas

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Healthy Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Alicia Young

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Cara Carty

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Gerardo Heiss

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Loic Le Marchand

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

Dana C. Crawford

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Lucia A. Hindorff

Affiliation Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Charles L. Kooperberg

Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

for the PAGE Consortium

Membership of the PAGE study is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The contents of this paper are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control, the Indian Health Service, or any other funding agency.

Author Contributions

¶ Membership of the PAGE study is provided in the Acknowledgments.

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: CSC KEN CLK DCC CAH FRS MDR UP LAH. Performed the experiments: AY KLS LD MDF DJD. Analyzed the data: NF SB CC LD MDF FRS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FT PAGE Consortium. Wrote the paper: CSC CLK. Editorial feedback and revisions: KEN CAH MDF SB FRS UP NF MDR DJD CBE FT TCM GH LLM DCC LAH.