About the Authors

Marilyn C. Cornelis

Contributed equally to this work with: Marilyn C. Cornelis, Keri L. Monda, Kai Yu, Nina Paynter

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Keri L. Monda

Contributed equally to this work with: Marilyn C. Cornelis, Keri L. Monda, Kai Yu, Nina Paynter

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

Kai Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Marilyn C. Cornelis, Keri L. Monda, Kai Yu, Nina Paynter

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nina Paynter

Contributed equally to this work with: Marilyn C. Cornelis, Keri L. Monda, Kai Yu, Nina Paynter

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elizabeth M. Azzato

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Siiri N. Bennett

Affiliation Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sonja I. Berndt

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Eric Boerwinkle

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Stephen Chanock

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nilanjan Chatterjee

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David Couper

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Gary Curhan

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gerardo Heiss

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

Frank B. Hu

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David J. Hunter

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin Jacobs

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Majken K. Jensen

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter Kraft

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maria Teresa Landi

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jennifer A. Nettleton

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mark P. Purdue

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Preetha Rajaraman

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Eric B. Rimm

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lynda M. Rose

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nathaniel Rothman

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Debra Silverman

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Amy Subar

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Meredith Yeager

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Daniel I. Chasman

caporasn@mail.nih.gov (NEC); RMvD ephrmvd@nus.edu.sg (RMvD); dchasman@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (DIC)

These authors were joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rob M. van Dam

caporasn@mail.nih.gov (NEC); RMvD ephrmvd@nus.edu.sg (RMvD); dchasman@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (DIC)

These authors were joint senior authors on this work.

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

Neil E. Caporaso

caporasn@mail.nih.gov (NEC); RMvD ephrmvd@nus.edu.sg (RMvD); dchasman@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (DIC)

These authors were joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NEC RMvD MCC. Analyzed the data: MCC KLM KY NP DIC. Wrote the paper: MCC KLM KY NP DIC RMvD NEC. Genetic data provider: EBR GC FBH PK DJH DIC NEC. Study management: NEC RMvD MCC. Critical review of manuscript: MCC KLM KY NP EMA SNB SIB EB SC NC DC GC GH FBH DJH KJ MKJ PK MTL JAN MPP PR EBR LMR NR DS RS-S AS MY DIC RMvD NEC.