About the Authors
- Karin E. Smedby
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Contributed equally to this work with: Karin E. Smedby, Jia Nee Foo
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Jia Nee Foo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Karin E. Smedby, Jia Nee Foo
Affiliation Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore
- Christine F. Skibola
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Hatef Darabi
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Lucia Conde
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Affiliation Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Henrik Hjalgrim
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Vikrant Kumar
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Affiliation Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore
- Ellen T. Chang
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Affiliations Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Nathaniel Rothman
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- James R. Cerhan
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Affiliation College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Angela R. Brooks-Wilson
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Affiliations British Columbia Cancer Research Center, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
- Emil Rehnberg
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Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Ishak D. Irwan
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Affiliation Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore
- Lars P. Ryder
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Peter N. Brown
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Affiliation Department of Haematology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Paige M. Bracci
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Luz Agana
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Affiliation Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Jacques Riby
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Affiliation Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Wendy Cozen
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Scott Davis
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Affiliations Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Patricia Hartge
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Lindsay M. Morton
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Richard K. Severson
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Affiliations Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Sophia S. Wang
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Affiliations Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Etiology, Beckman Research Institute and the City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America
- Susan L. Slager
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Affiliation College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Zachary S. Fredericksen
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Affiliation College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Anne J. Novak
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Affiliation College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Neil E. Kay
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Affiliation College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Thomas M. Habermann
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Affiliation College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
- Bruce Armstrong
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Affiliation Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Anne Kricker
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Affiliation Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Sam Milliken
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Affiliation Department of Haematology, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia
- Mark P. Purdue
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Claire M. Vajdic
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Affiliation University of New South Wales Cancer Research Center, Prince of Wales Clinical School, Sydney, Australia
- Peter Boyle
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Affiliation International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France
- Qing Lan
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Shelia H. Zahm
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Yawei Zhang
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Affiliation School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Tongzhang Zheng
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Affiliation School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Stephen Leach
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Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada
- John J. Spinelli
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Affiliations British Columbia Cancer Research Center, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Martyn T. Smith
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Affiliation Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Stephen J. Chanock
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Leonid Padyukov
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Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
- Lars Alfredsson
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Affiliation Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Lars Klareskog
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Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
- Bengt Glimelius
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Affiliations Department of Pathology and Oncology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Radiology, Oncology, and Radiation Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Mads Melbye
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Edison T. Liu
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Affiliation Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore
- Hans-Olov Adami
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Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Keith Humphreys
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Jianjun Liu
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* E-mail: liuj3@gis.a-star.edu.sg
¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KES ETL HOA JL. Performed the experiments: IDI. Analyzed the data: KES JNF CFS HD LC VK ER KH JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KES CFS LC HH ETC NR JRC LPR PNB PMB LA JR WC SD PH LMM RKS SSW SLS ZSF AJN NEK TMH BA AK SM MPP CMV PB QL SHZ YZ TZ SL JJS MTS SJC LP LA LK BG MM ETL HOA JL. Wrote the paper: KES JNF KH JL. Critical revision of manuscript: CFS HD LC VK ETC IDI SJC. Genotyped samples and provided data from the BC study: ARBW. Provided data from the SF1 and SF2 GWAS studies: JR. Supervised the experiments: JL JNF.