About the Authors

Logan Dumitrescu

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

Cara L. Carty

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

Kira Taylor

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Fredrick R. Schumacher

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

Lucia A. Hindorff

Affiliation Office of Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

José L. Ambite

Affiliation Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Garnet Anderson

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

Lyle G. Best

Affiliation Missouri Breaks Industries Research, Timber Lake, South Dakota, United States of America

Kristin Brown-Gentry

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

Petra Bůžková

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christopher S. Carlson

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

Barbara Cochran

Affiliation Sponsored Programs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shelley A. Cole

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Richard B. Devereux

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Dave Duggan

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

Charles B. Eaton

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Alpert Medical School of Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Myriam Fornage

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Texas, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Nora Franceschini

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jeff Haessler

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

Barbara V. Howard

Affiliation Medstar Research Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Karen C. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Sandra Laston

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Laurence N. Kolonel

Affiliation Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Elisa T. Lee

Affiliation University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Jean W. MacCluer

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Teri A. Manolio

Affiliation Office of Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sarah A. Pendergrass

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

Miguel Quibrera

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ralph V. Shohet

Affiliation Center of Cardiovascular Research, Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Lynne R. Wilkens

Affiliation Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Christopher A. Haiman

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

Loïc Le Marchand

Affiliation Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Steven Buyske

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

Charles Kooperberg

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

Kari E. North

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

Dana C. Crawford

crawford@chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LD CLC KT FRS LAH PB CSC SAC CBE MF NF TAM SAP MQ SB CK KEN DCC. Performed the experiments: DD BC. Analyzed the data: LD CLC KT FRS KB-G PB MF NF SAP MQ SB CK KEN DCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JLA GA LGB BC SAC RBD CBE JH KCJ SL LNK ETL JM SAP RVS LRW CAH LLM BVH. Wrote the paper: LD DCC.