About the Authors

Thomas J. Hoffmann

Thomas.Hoffmann@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America

Bronya J. Keats

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, United States of America

Noriko Yoshikawa

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, United States of America

Catherine Schaefer

Affiliation Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, Oakland, United States of America

Neil Risch

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, Oakland, United States of America

Lawrence R. Lustig

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia, United States of America, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TJH NR LRL. Formal analysis: TJH. Funding acquisition: TJH. Writing – original draft: TJH. Writing – review & editing: TJH BJK NY CS NR LRL.