About the Authors

Zhuo Zhang

Affiliation Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Dale L. Preston

Affiliation Hirosoft International Corporation, Eureka, CA, United States of America

Mikhail Sokolnikov

Affiliation Southern Urals Biophysics Institute, Ozersk, Russia

Bruce A. Napier

Affiliation Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States of America

Marina Degteva

Affiliation Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk, Russia

Brian Moroz

Affiliation Hirosoft International Corporation, Eureka, CA, United States of America

Vadim Vostrotin

Affiliation Southern Urals Biophysics Institute, Ozersk, Russia

Elena Shiskina

Affiliation Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk, Russia

Alan Birchall

Affiliation Global Dosimetry Limited, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

Daniel O. Stram

daniel.stram@med.usc.edu

Affiliation Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests. DLP is sole proprietor of Hirosoft International, a software and consulting company with a subcontract with the University of Southern California to work on the DOE-funded Mayak Workers and Techa River Cohorts. AB is sole proprietor of Global Dosimetry a consulting company with a contract from DOE to assist on the dosimetry for the Mayak Workers Cohort. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DLP MS BAN AB DOS. Data curation: VV. Formal analysis: ZZ DOS. Funding acquisition: DOS. Methodology: ZZ DLP DOS. Resources: MS BAN MD VV ES AB. Software: ZZ DLP BM DOS. Supervision: DOS. Writing – original draft: ZZ DOS. Writing – review & editing: ZZ DLP DOS.