About the Authors

Sara Rashkin

srashkin@umich.edu (SR); goncalo@umich.edu (GRA)

Affiliations Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Goo Jun

Affiliations Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sai Chen

Affiliations Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium (GECCO)

Membership of the Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Goncalo R. Abecasis

srashkin@umich.edu (SR); goncalo@umich.edu (GRA)

Affiliation Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: consulting for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (GRA).

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SR GRA. Data curation: GJ SC. Formal analysis: SR. Funding acquisition: GRA. Investigation: SR. Methodology: SR. Software: SR GJ GRA. Supervision: GRA. Visualization: SR. Writing – original draft: SR. Writing – review & editing: SR GRA.