About the Authors

Brandon L. Pierce

brandonpierce@uchicago.edu (BLP); habib@uchicago.edu (HA)

Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lin Tong

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lin S. Chen

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ronald Rahaman

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Maria Argos

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Farzana Jasmine

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Shantanu Roy

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Rachelle Paul-Brutus

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Harm-Jan Westra

Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Lude Franke

Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Tonu Esko

Affiliation Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Rakibuz Zaman

Affiliation UChicago Research Bangladesh, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Tariqul Islam

Affiliation UChicago Research Bangladesh, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mahfuzar Rahman

Affiliations UChicago Research Bangladesh, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladhesh

John A. Baron

Affiliation University of North Carolina, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Muhammad G. Kibriya

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Habibul Ahsan

brandonpierce@uchicago.edu (BLP); habib@uchicago.edu (HA)

Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BLP MGK HA. Performed the experiments: RR FJ SR RPB MGK. Analyzed the data: BLP LT LSC HJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJW LF TE RZ TI MR JAB HA. Wrote the paper: BLP LT LSC RR MA HJW LF JAB MGK HA.