About the Authors

Hauke Thomsen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

hauke.thomsen@genewerk.de

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, GeneWerk GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany

Xinjun Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Kristina Sundquist

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for Community-based Healthcare Research and Education (CoHRE), Department of Functional Pathology, School of Medicine, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan

Jan Sundquist

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for Community-based Healthcare Research and Education (CoHRE), Department of Functional Pathology, School of Medicine, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan

Asta Försti

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Hopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany

Kari Hemminki

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University in Prague, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

HT is employed by GeneWerk GmbH, a commercial enterprise which is active in an area unrelated to the present article. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.