About the Authors

Xuehong Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

xuehong.zhang@channing.harvard.edu

Affiliation Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Megan Rice

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shelley S. Tworoger

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Bernard A. Rosner

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

A. Heather Eliassen

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rulla M. Tamimi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amit D. Joshi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sara Lindstrom

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jing Qian

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Graham A. Colditz

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Walter C. Willett

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter Kraft

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan E. Hankinson

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.