About the Authors

Irene Orlow

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

orlowi@MSKCC.ORG

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Keimya D. Sadeghi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Sharon N. Edmiston

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jessica M. Kenney

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Cecilia Lezcano

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

James S. Wilmott

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and NSW Health Pathology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Anne E. Cust

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, The Daffodil Centre, University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council New South Wales, Australia, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Richard A. Scolyer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and NSW Health Pathology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Graham J. Mann

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Centre for Cancer Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Tim K. Lee

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation British Columbia Cancer Research Center, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Hazel Burke

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Valerie Jakrot

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ping Shang

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Peter M. Ferguson

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and New South Wales Health Pathology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Tawny W. Boyce

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Jennifer S. Ko

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Peter Ngo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hospital Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Pauline Funchain

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Judy R. Rees

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Kelli O’Connell

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Honglin Hao

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Eloise Parrish

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Kathleen Conway

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Paul B. Googe

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

David W. Ollila

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Stergios J. Moschos

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, The University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Eva Hernando

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Douglas Hanniford

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Diana Argibay

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Christopher I. Amos

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey E. Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Iman Osman

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Urology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

Li Luo

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Pei-Fen Kuan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Arshi Aurora

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Bonnie E. Gould Rothberg

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Smilow Cancer Hospital, Yale-New Haven Health System, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Marcus W. Bosenberg

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Medical Oncology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Meg R. Gerstenblith

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Cheryl Thompson

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Paul N. Bogner

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Ivan P. Gorlov

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sheri L. Holmen

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Oncological Sciences, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Elise K. Brunsgaard

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Yvonne M. Saenger

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Albert Einstein Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ronglai Shen

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Venkatraman Seshan

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Eduardo Nagore

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Instituto Valenciano de Oncologia, Valencia, Spain

Marc S. Ernstoff

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, ImmunoOncology Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Klaus J. Busam

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Colin B. Begg

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Nancy E. Thomas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Marianne Berwick

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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Membership of the InterMEL Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: R.A.S. has received fees for professional services from F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Evaxion, Provectus Biopharmaceuticals Australia, Qbiotics, Novartis, Merck Sharp & Dohme, NeraCare, AMGEN Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb, Myriad Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.