About the Authors

Xiao Ou Shu

xiao-ou.shu@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jirong Long

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Qiuyin Cai

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Lu Qi

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yong-Bing Xiang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, China

Yoon Shin Cho

Affiliation Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Seoul, Korea

E. Shyong Tai

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Xiangyang Li

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Xu Lin

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Wong-Ho Chow

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Min Jin Go

Affiliation Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Seoul, Korea

Mark Seielstad

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Wei Bao

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Huaixing Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Marilyn C. Cornelis

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kai Yu

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Wanqing Wen

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jiajun Shi

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Bok-Ghee Han

Affiliation Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Seoul, Korea

Xue Ling Sim

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Liegang Liu

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Qibin Qi

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Hyung-Lae Kim

Affiliation Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Seoul, Korea

Daniel P. K. Ng

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Jong-Young Lee

Affiliation Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Seoul, Korea

Young Jin Kim

Affiliation Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Seoul, Korea

Chun Li

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yu-Tang Gao

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, China

Wei Zheng

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Frank B. Hu

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XOS QC WZ FBH. Performed the experiments: QC JS. Analyzed the data: JL WW YJK CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL QC LQ YBX YSC EST XL XL WHC MJG MS WB HL MCC KY BGH XLS LL QQ HLK DPKN JYL YTG WZ FBH. Wrote the paper: XOS JL QC WZ.