About the Authors

Adam M. Bernstein

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam M. Bernstein, Mingyang Song

Affiliation Rally Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mingyang Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Adam M. Bernstein, Mingyang Song

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xuehong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

An Pan

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China

Molin Wang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Charles S. Fuchs

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ngoan Le

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Andrew T. Chan

Affiliations Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Walter C. Willett

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shuji Ogino

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Edward L. Giovannucci

Affiliations Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kana Wu

kana.wu@channing.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB MS EG CF AC SO WW KW. Performed the experiments: AB MS XZ AP. Analyzed the data: AB MS XZ MW NL KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW. Wrote the paper: AB MS XZ AP MW EG SO CF NL AC WW KW. Collected data: CF AC EG.