About the Authors

Yumie Takata

Affiliation Public Health Science Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Alan R. Kristal

Affiliation Public Health Science Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Regina M. Santella

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Irena B. King

Affiliations Public Health Science Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

David J. Duggan

Affiliation Division of Genetic Basis of Human Disease, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Johanna W. Lampe

Affiliation Public Health Science Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Margaret P. Rayman

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Patricia L. Blount

Affiliation Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Brian J. Reid

Affiliations Public Health Science Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thomas L. Vaughan

Affiliation Public Health Science Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ulrike Peters

upeters@fhcrc.org

Affiliation Public Health Science Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJR TLV UP. Performed the experiments: RMS IBK DJD PLB BJR TLV UP. Analyzed the data: YT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RMS IBK DJD PLB BJR TLV. Wrote the paper: YT ARK JWL MPR PLB TLV UP. Directed the overall study operation: BJR TLV UP.