About the Authors

Manon Delahaye-Sourdeix

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility group (GCS), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Javier Oliver

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility group (GCS), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Maria N. Timofeeva

Affiliations Genetic Epidemiology group (GEP), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh and Medical Research Council (MRC) Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Valérie Gaborieau

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology group (GEP), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Mattias Johansson

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology group (GEP), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Amélie Chabrier

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility group (GCS), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Magdalena B. Wozniak

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology group (GEP), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Darren R. Brenner

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology group (GEP), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Maxime P. Vallée

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility group (GCS), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Devasena Anantharaman

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology group (GEP), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Pagona Lagiou

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Ivana Holcátová

Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Lorenzo Richiardi

Affiliation University of Turin, Department of Medical Sciences, Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Turin, Italy

Kristina Kjaerheim

Affiliation Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway

Antonio Agudo

Affiliation Catalan Institute of Oncology-ICO, IDIBELL. L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Xavier Castellsagué

Affiliations Catalan Institute of Oncology-ICO, IDIBELL. L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

Tatiana V. Macfarlane

Affiliation School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Luigi Barzan

Affiliation General Hospital of Pordenone, Pordenone, Italy

Cristina Canova

Affiliations Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Nalin S. Thakker

Affiliation University of Manchester, School of Dentistry, Manchester, United Kingdom

David I. Conway

Affiliation University of Glasgow Dental School, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ariana Znaor

Affiliation Croatian National Cancer Registry, Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia

Claire M. Healy

Affiliation Trinity College School of Dental Science, Dublin, Ireland

Wolfgang Ahrens

Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology—BIPS, Bremen, Germany, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

David Zaridze

Affiliation Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russian Federation

Neonilia Szeszenia-Dabrowska

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland

Jolanta Lissowska

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, M. Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland

Eleonora Fabianova

Affiliation Regional Authority of Public Health, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia

Ioan Nicolae Mates

Affiliation Saint Mary General and Esophageal Surgery Clinic, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

Vladimir Bencko

Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Lenka Foretova

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Vladimir Janout

Affiliation Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Maria Paula Curado

Affiliation International Prevention Research Institute (IPRI), Ecully, France

Sergio Koifman

Affiliation National School of Public Health/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ana Menezes

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil

Victor Wünsch-Filho

Affiliation Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

José Eluf-Neto

Affiliation Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Paolo Boffetta

Affiliation The Tisch Cancer Institute Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

Leticia Fernández Garrote

Affiliation Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology, Havana, Cuba

Diego Serraino

Affiliation Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, IRCSS, Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Aviano, Italy

Marcin Lener

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Ewa Jaworowska

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Jan Lubiński

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Stefania Boccia

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Section of Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Thangarajan Rajkumar

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Tanuja A. Samant

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Tata Memorial Centre, Navi Mumbai, India

Manoj B. Mahimkar

Affiliation Cancer Research Institute, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Tata Memorial Centre, Navi Mumbai, India

Keitaro Matsuo

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion, Division of Oral Pathology, Kyushu Dental University, Kitakyushu, Japan

Silvia Franceschi

Affiliation Infections and Cancer Epidemiology group (ICE), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Graham Byrnes

Affiliation Biostatistics group (BST), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Paul Brennan

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology group (GEP), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

James D. McKay

gcs@iarc.fr

Affiliation Genetic Cancer Susceptibility group (GCS), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDS GB P. Brennan JDM. Performed the experiments: MDS JO AC JDM. Analyzed the data: MDS JO MNT VG MJ MBW DB MPV DA GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PL IH LR KK AA XC TVM LB CC NST DIC AZ CMH WA DZ NSD J. Lissowska EF INM VB LF VJ MPC SK AM VWF JEN P. Boffetta LFG DS ML EJ J. Lubiński SB TR TAS MBM KM SF. Wrote the paper: MDS JO MNT MJ JDM. Final manuscript writing: MDS JO MNT VG MJ AC MBW DRB MPV DA PL IH LR KK AA XC TVM LB CC NST DIC AZ CMH WA DZ NSD J. Lissowska EF INM VB LF VJ MPC SK AM VWF JEN P. Boffetta LFG DS ML EJ J. Lubiński SB TR TAS MBM KM SF GB P. Brennan JDM.