About the Authors

James Yarmolinsky

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

Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Caroline L. Relton

Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline L. Relton, Richard M. Martin, Sarah J. Lewis

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, University of Bristol and University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom

Artitaya Lophatananon

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Kenneth Muir

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Usha Menon

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Clinical Trials Unit, Institute for Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Clinical Trials Unit, Institute for Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Axel Walther

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bristol Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom

Jie Zheng

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Peter Fasching

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen–EMN, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Wei Zheng

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Woo Yin Ling

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sue K. Park

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Biomedical Science, Seoul National University Graduate School, Seoul, South Korea

Byoung-Gie Kim

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Ji-Yeob Choi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Biomedical Science, Seoul National University Graduate School, Seoul, South Korea

Boyoung Park

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

George Davey Smith

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, University of Bristol and University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom

Richard M. Martin

Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline L. Relton, Richard M. Martin, Sarah J. Lewis

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, University of Bristol and University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom

Sarah J. Lewis

Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline L. Relton, Richard M. Martin, Sarah J. Lewis

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

S.J.Lewis@bristol.ac.uk

Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: WZ and GDS are on the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.