About the Authors
- Fang Chen
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Jing He
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Jianqi Zhang
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Gary K. Chen
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Venetta Thomas
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Affiliation Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Christine B. Ambrosone
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Affiliation Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
- Elisa V. Bandera
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Affiliation The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America
- Sonja I. Berndt
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
- Leslie Bernstein
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Etiology, Department of Population Science, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, CA, United States of America
- William J. Blot
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Affiliations International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, MD, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America
- Qiuyin Cai
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Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America
- John Carpten
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Affiliation The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America
- Graham Casey
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Stephen J. Chanock
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
- Iona Cheng
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Affiliation Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States of America
- Lisa Chu
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Affiliation Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, CA, United States of America
- Sandra L. Deming
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Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America
- W. Ryan Driver
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Affiliation Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, United States of America
- Phyllis Goodman
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Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America
- Richard B. Hayes
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Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America
- Anselm J. M. Hennis
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Affiliations Chronic Disease Research Centre and Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados, Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America
- Ann W. Hsing
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
- Jennifer J. Hu
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Affiliation Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Sue A. Ingles
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Esther M. John
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Affiliations Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, CA, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research & Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, CA, United States of America
- Rick A. Kittles
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
- Suzanne Kolb
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Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America
- M. Cristina Leske
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America
- Robert C. Millikan
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† Deceased.
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
- Kristine R. Monroe
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Adam Murphy
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Affiliation Department of Urology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States of America
- Barbara Nemesure
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America
- Christine Neslund-Dudas
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, United States of America
- Sarah Nyante
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
- Elaine A Ostrander
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Affiliation Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
- Michael F. Press
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Jorge L. Rodriguez-Gil
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Affiliation Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America
- Ben A. Rybicki
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, United States of America
- Fredrick Schumacher
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Janet L. Stanford
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Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America
- Lisa B. Signorello
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Sara S. Strom
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America
- Victoria Stevens
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Affiliation Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, United States of America
- David Van Den Berg
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Zhaoming Wang
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
- John S. Witte
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Affiliation Institute for Human Genetics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
- Suh-Yuh Wu
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America
- Yuko Yamamura
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Affiliation Institute for Human Genetics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America
- Wei Zheng
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Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, United States of America
- Regina G. Ziegler
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
- Alexander H. Stram
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Laurence N. Kolonel
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Affiliation Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States of America
- Loïc Le Marchand
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Affiliation Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States of America
- Brian E. Henderson
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Christopher A. Haiman
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
- Daniel O. Stram
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* E-mail: stram@usc.edu
Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DOS FC CAH BEH. Performed the experiments: FC JH JQZ GKC AHS. Analyzed the data: FC JH JQZ DOS GKC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VT CBA EVB SIB LB WJB QC JC GC SJC IC LC SLD WRD PG RBH AJMH AWH JJH SAI EMJ RAK SK MCL RCM KRM AM BN CND SN EAO MFP JLR BAR FS JLS LBS SSS VS DVDB ZW JSW SYW YY WZ RGZ CAH LNK LLM BEH. Wrote the paper: FC DOS.