About the Authors

Julia M. Lauper

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Alison Krause

Affiliation Department of The School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thomas L. Vaughan

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Epidemiology Program, Public Health Sciences Division, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Raymond J. Monnat Jr

monnat@u.washington.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JML AK TLV RJM. Performed the experiments: JML AK TLV RJM. Analyzed the data: JML AK TLV RJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JML AK TLV RJM. Wrote the paper: JML TLV RJM.