About the Authors

Pei-Hsuan Weng

Contributed equally to this work with: Pei-Hsuan Weng, Yi-Ling Huang

Affiliations Department of Family Medicine, Taiwan Adventist Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Ling Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Pei-Hsuan Weng, Yi-Ling Huang

Affiliation Jean Mayer US Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John H. Page

Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Department of Epidemiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jen-Hau Chen

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jianfeng Xu

Affiliation Center for Human Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Stella Koutros

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sonja Berndt

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen Chanock

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Meredith Yeager

Affiliations Core Genotyping Facility, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., NCI-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John S. Witte

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Center of Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Rosalind A. Eeles

Affiliation The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom

Douglas F. Easton

Affiliation Centre for Cancer Epidemiology, Departments of Public Health and Primary Care and Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

David E. Neal

Affiliation Surgical Oncology (Uro-Oncology: S4), Departments of Oncology and Surgery, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jenny Donovan

Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Freddie C. Hamdy

Affiliation Academic Urology Unit, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Kenneth R. Muir

Affiliation University of Nottingham Medical School, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Graham Giles

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Gianluca Severi

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Jeffrey R. Smith

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Carmela R. Balistreri

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology and Medical and Forensic Biotechnologies, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Irene M. Shui

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yen-Ching Chen

karenchen@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Research Center for Genes, Environment and Human Health, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YCC. Performed the experiments: YCC. Analyzed the data: PHW YLH JHP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHC JFX SK SB SC MY JSW RAE DFE DEN JD FCH KRM GG GS JRS CRB IMS YCC. Wrote the paper: PHW YLH JHP CRB.