About the Authors

Michael B. Cook

michael.cook@nih.gov

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

Douglas A. Corley

Affiliation Division of Research and Oakland Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente, Northern California, Oakland, California, United States of America

Liam J. Murray

Affiliation Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Linda M. Liao

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

Farin Kamangar

Affiliations Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Public Health Analysis, School of Community Health and Policy, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Weimin Ye

Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Marilie D. Gammon

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Harvey A. Risch

Affiliation Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Alan G. Casson

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Neal D. Freedman

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

Wong-Ho Chow

Affiliation The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Epidemiology, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anna H. Wu

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Leslie Bernstein

Affiliation Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute and City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Olof Nyrén

Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Nirmala Pandeya

Affiliation QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

David C. Whiteman

Affiliation QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

Thomas L. Vaughan

Affiliation Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: MBC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MBC DAC LJM LML FK WY MDG HAR AGC NDF WHC AHW LB ON NP DCW TLV. Study concept and design: MBC DAC LJM WY MDG HAR AGC WHC AHW LB ON DCW TLV. Acquisition of data: DAC LJM WY MDG HAR AGC WHC AHW LB ON DCW TLV. Analysis and interpretation of data: MBC TLV. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: MBC DAC LJM LML FK WY MDG HAR AGC NDF WHC AHW LB ON NP DCW TLV.