About the Authors

Leah E. Mechanic

Contributed equally to this work with: Leah E. Mechanic, Sara Lindström

mechanil@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sara Lindström

Contributed equally to this work with: Leah E. Mechanic, Sara Lindström

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kenneth M. Daily

Affiliation Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Solveig K. Sieberts

Affiliation Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christopher I. Amos

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Huann-Sheng Chen

Affiliation Surveillance Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nancy J. Cox

Affiliation Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Marina Dathe

Affiliation Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Eric J. Feuer

Affiliation Surveillance Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael J. Guertin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Joshua Hoffman

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yunxian Liu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Jason H. Moore

Affiliation Division of Informatics, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Chad L. Myers

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Marylyn D. Ritchie

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Systems Genomics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joellen Schildkraut

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Fredrick Schumacher

Affiliation Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

John S. Witte

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Wen Wang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Scott M. Williams

Affiliation Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

U4C Challenge Participants

Listing of the U4C Challenge Participants and U4C Challenge Data Contributors is provided in the Acknowledgments.

U4C Challenge Data Contributors

Listing of the U4C Challenge Participants and U4C Challenge Data Contributors is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Elizabeth M. Gillanders

Affiliation Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

SMW is a Section Editor of PLOS Genetics. LEM and EMG are employees of NCI. The authors have no other competing interests.