About the Authors
- Mark Clendenning
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Affiliation Cancer and Population Studies Group, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Joanne P. Young
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Affiliation Cancer and Population Studies Group, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Michael D. Walsh
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Affiliations Cancer and Population Studies Group, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Department of Histopathology, Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Sonja Woodall
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Affiliation New Zealand Familial Gastrointestinal Cancer Service, Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
- Julie Arnold
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Affiliation New Zealand Familial Gastrointestinal Cancer Service, Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
- Mark Jenkins
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Affiliation Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Aung Ko Win
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Affiliation Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- John L. Hopper
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Affiliation Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Kevin Sweet
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Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, The Ohio State University Medical Centre, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Steven Gallinger
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Affiliations Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Zane Cohen Centre for Digestive Diseases, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Christophe Rosty
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Affiliations Cancer and Population Studies Group, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Envoi Specialist Pathologists, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Susan Parry
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Affiliations New Zealand Familial Gastrointestinal Cancer Service, Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
- Daniel D. Buchanan
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* E-mail: Daniel.Buchanan@qimr.edu.au
Affiliation Cancer and Population Studies Group, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Competing Interests
Dr. Michael D. Walsh is employed by Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology and Dr. Christophe Rosty is employed by Envoi Specialist Pathologists, both are private diagnostic pathology services. The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare with regard to their employment and this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DDB JPY MC SP CR MDW KS AKW MJ JLH SG. Performed the experiments: MC. Analyzed the data: DDB MC CR JPY MDW SP KS MJ AKW JLH SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP JA SW SG. Wrote the paper: DDB JPY MC MDW CR SP KS AKW MJ JLH SG SW JA.