About the Authors

Paul J. Leo

Contributed equally to this work with: Paul J. Leo, Margaret M. Madeleine

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia

Margaret M. Madeleine

Contributed equally to this work with: Paul J. Leo, Margaret M. Madeleine

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Sophia Wang

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, United States of America

Stephen M. Schwartz

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Felicity Newell

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia

Ulrika Pettersson-Kymmer

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Kari Hemminki

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Goran Hallmans

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutritional Research, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Sven Tiews

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MHC Laboratory for Cytopathology, Dr.Steinberg GmbH, Soest, Germany

Winfried Steinberg

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MHC Laboratory for Cytopathology, Dr.Steinberg GmbH, Soest, Germany

Janet S. Rader

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Felipe Castro

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Mahboobeh Safaeian

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Eduardo L. Franco

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

François Coutlée

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de Microbiologie, Infectiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

Claes Ohlsson

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Adrian Cortes

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia

Mhairi Marshall

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia

Pamela Mukhopadhyay

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia

Katie Cremin

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia

Lisa G. Johnson

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Suzanne Garland

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Regional World Health Organisation Human Papillomavirus Laboratory Network, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Royal Women’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia

Sepehr N. Tabrizi

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia

Nicolas Wentzensen

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Freddy Sitas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Council NSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia

Julian Little

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Maggie Cruickshank

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medical Education, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland

Ian H. Frazer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia

Allan Hildesheim

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Matthew A. Brown

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Matt.brown@qut.edu.au

Affiliation Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.