About the Authors

Huiling He

huiling.he@osumc.edu (HH); albert.delachapelle@osumc.edu (AdlC)

Affiliation Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Wei Li

Affiliation Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Dayong Wu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Rebecca Nagy

Affiliations Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Sandya Liyanarachchi

Affiliation Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Keiko Akagi

Affiliation Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jaroslaw Jendrzejewski

Affiliation Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Hong Jiao

Affiliation Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Clinical Research Centre, and Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Kevin Hoag

Affiliation Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Bernard Wen

Affiliation Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Mukund Srinivas

Affiliation Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Gavisha Waidyaratne

Affiliation Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Rui Wang

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Anna Wojcicka

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland, Genomic Medicine, Department of General, Transplant, and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Ilene R. Lattimer

Affiliations Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Elzbieta Stachlewska

Affiliation Department of Endocrine Surgery, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland

Malgorzata Czetwertynska

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland

Joanna Dlugosinska

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrine Oncology, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland

Wojciech Gierlikowski

Affiliation Genomic Medicine, Department of General, Transplant, and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Rafal Ploski

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Marek Krawczyk

Affiliation Genomic Medicine, Department of General, Transplant, and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Krystian Jazdzewski

Affiliations Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Genomic Medicine, Department of General, Transplant, and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Juha Kere

Affiliations Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Clinical Research Centre, and Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, Helsinki, and Research Program's Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

David E. Symer

Affiliations Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Victor Jin

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Qianben Wang

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Albert de la Chapelle

huiling.he@osumc.edu (HH); albert.delachapelle@osumc.edu (AdlC)

Affiliation Human Cancer Genetics Program and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH QW AdlC. Performed the experiments: WL DW JJ KH BW MS GW AW. Analyzed the data: SL KA HJ RW VJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RN IRL ES MC JD WG RP MK KJ JK DES. Wrote the paper: HH AdlC.