Reproductive characteristics modify the association between global DNA methylation and breast cancer risk in a population-based sample of women

• Lindsay J. Collin ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lindsay.jane.collin@emory.edu

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0170-2592

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• Lauren E. McCullough,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Kathleen Conway,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Alexandra J. White,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Science, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States of America

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• Xinran Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Roche Product Development in Asia-Pacific, Shanghai, China

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• Yoon Hee Cho,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States of America

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• Sumitra Shantakumar,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Inc., Singapore

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• Susan L. Teitelbaum,

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

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Alfred I. Neugut,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY,United States of America, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Regina M. Santella,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Jia Chen,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America, Department of Oncological Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Marilie D. Gammon

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

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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