About the Authors
- Jacqueline M. Major
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jacqueline M. Major, Christine Kiruthu
* E-mail: jacqueline.major@nih.gov
Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Christine Kiruthu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jacqueline M. Major, Christine Kiruthu
Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Stephanie J. Weinstein
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Ronald L. Horst
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Affiliation Heartland Assays, Inc., Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Kirk Snyder
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Affiliation Information Management Services, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
- Jarmo Virtamo
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Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Demetrius Albanes
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Ronald Horst is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Heartland Assays, Inc., where the 25(OH)D concentrations were measured. Kirk Snyder is an analytic programmer employed by Informations Management Systems, Inc. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials..
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DA JMM SJW JV. Analyzed the data: JMM CK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJW KS RLH JV. Wrote the paper: JMM DA CK. Read and approved the final manuscript: JMM CK SJW RLH KS JV DA.