About the Authors
- James D. McKay
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
- Therese Truong
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
- Valerie Gaborieau
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
- Amelie Chabrier
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
- Shu-Chun Chuang
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
- Graham Byrnes
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
- David Zaridze
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Affiliation Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia
- Oxana Shangina
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Affiliation Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia
- Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland
- Jolanta Lissowska
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Affiliation The M. Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
- Peter Rudnai
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Affiliation National Institute of Environmental Health, Budapest, Hungary
- Eleonora Fabianova
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Affiliation Regional Authority of Public Health, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
- Alexandru Bucur
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Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania
- Vladimir Bencko
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology,1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Ivana Holcatova
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology,1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Vladimir Janout
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Affiliation Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Lenka Foretova
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Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
- Pagona Lagiou
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Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Medical Statistics, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
- Dimitrios Trichopoulos
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Affiliations Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Medical Statistics, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Simone Benhamou
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Affiliations INSERM U946, Paris, France, CNRS UMR8200, Gustave Roussy Institute, Villejuif, France
- Christine Bouchardy
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Affiliation Geneva Cancer Registry, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Wolfgang Ahrens
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Affiliation Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Franco Merletti
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Affiliation Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- Lorenzo Richiardi
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Affiliation Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- Renato Talamini
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Affiliation National Cancer Institute, IRCSS, Aviano, Italy
- Luigi Barzan
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Affiliation General Hospital of Pordenone, Pordenone, Italy
- Kristina Kjaerheim
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Affiliation Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway
- Gary J. Macfarlane
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Affiliation School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Tatiana V. Macfarlane
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Affiliation School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Lorenzo Simonato
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
- Cristina Canova
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Affiliations Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Antonio Agudo
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Affiliation Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO), Barcelona, Spain
- Xavier Castellsagué
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Affiliations Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Publica (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Ray Lowry
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Affiliation University of Newcastle Dental School, Newcastle, United Kingdom
- David I. Conway
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Affiliation University of Glasgow Dental School, Glasgow, Scotland
- Patricia A. McKinney
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Affiliations University of Leeds Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds, United Kingdom, NHS NSS ISD, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Claire M. Healy
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Affiliation Trinity College School of Dental Science, Dublin, Ireland
- Mary E. Toner
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Affiliation Trinity College School of Dental Science, Dublin, Ireland
- Ariana Znaor
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Affiliation Croatian National Cancer Registry, Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
- Maria Paula Curado
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
- Sergio Koifman
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Affiliation National School of Public Health/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Ana Menezes
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Affiliation Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil
- Victor Wünsch-Filho
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Affiliation Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- José Eluf Neto
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Affiliation Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Leticia Fernández Garrote
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Affiliation Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology, Havana, Cuba
- Stefania Boccia
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Affiliations Institute of Hygiene, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy
- Gabriella Cadoni
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
- Dario Arzani
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
- Andrew F. Olshan
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Affiliation Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Mark C. Weissler
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Affiliation School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- William K. Funkhouser
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Affiliation School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jingchun Luo
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Affiliation School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jan Lubiński
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Affiliation Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathomorphology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Szczecin, Poland
- Joanna Trubicka
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Affiliation Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathomorphology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Szczecin, Poland
- Marcin Lener
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Affiliation Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathomorphology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Szczecin, Poland
- Dorota Oszutowska
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Affiliations Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Genetics and Pathomorphology, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Szczecin, Poland, Pomeranian Medical University, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Szczecin, Poland
- Stephen M. Schwartz
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Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Chu Chen
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Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Sherianne Fish
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Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- David R. Doody
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Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Joshua E. Muscat
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Affiliation Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Philip Lazarus
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Affiliation Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Carla J. Gallagher
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Affiliation Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Shen-Chih Chang
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Affiliation University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Zuo-Feng Zhang
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Affiliation University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Qingyi Wei
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Affiliation University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Erich M. Sturgis
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Affiliation University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Li-E Wang
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Affiliation University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Silvia Franceschi
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
- Rolando Herrero
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Affiliation Instituto de Investigación Epidemiológica, San José, Costa Rica
- Karl T. Kelsey
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Affiliation Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Michael D. McClean
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Affiliation Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Carmen J. Marsit
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Affiliation Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- Heather H. Nelson
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Affiliation Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Marjorie Romkes
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Affiliation University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Shama Buch
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Affiliation University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Tomoko Nukui
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Affiliation University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Shilong Zhong
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Affiliation University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Martin Lacko
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Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Johannes J. Manni
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Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Wilbert H. M. Peters
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, St. Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Rayjean J. Hung
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Affiliation Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of the Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
- John McLaughlin
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Affiliation Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- Lars Vatten
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Affiliation Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Inger Njølstad
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Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway
- Gary E. Goodman
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Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- John K. Field
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Affiliation Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool Cancer Research Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Triantafillos Liloglou
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Affiliation Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool Cancer Research Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Paolo Vineis
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Affiliations Servizio di Epidemiologia dei Tumori, Università di Torino and CPO-Piemonte, Turin, Italy, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Francoise Clavel-Chapelon
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Affiliation INSERM, E3N-EPIC Group Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
- Domenico Palli
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Affiliation Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute (ISPO), Florence, Italy
- Rosario Tumino
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Affiliation Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera “Civile M.P.Arezzo”, Ragusa, Italy
- Vittorio Krogh
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Affiliation Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
- Salvatore Panico
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Carlos A. González
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Affiliation Unit of Nutrition, Environment, and Cancer (IDIBELL, RETICC DR06-0020, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Barcelona, Spain
- J. Ramón Quirós
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Affiliation Jefe Sección Información Sanitaria, Consejería de Servicios Sociales, Principado de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
- Carmen Martínez
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Affiliation Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública, Granada, Spain
- Carmen Navarro
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Affiliations Epidemiology Department, Murcia Health Council, Murcia, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Publica (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Eva Ardanaz
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Affiliations CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Publica (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Navarra Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain
- Nerea Larrañaga
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Affiliation Subdirección de Salud Pública de Gipuzkoa, Gobierno Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain
- Kay-Tee Khaw
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Affiliation School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Timothy Key
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Affiliation Cancer Research UK, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita
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Affiliation National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
- Petra H. M. Peeters
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Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Antonia Trichopoulou
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Affiliation WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Medical Statistics, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
- Jakob Linseisen
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Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Neuherberg, Germany, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
- Heiner Boeing
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany
- Göran Hallmans
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Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
- Kim Overvad
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Anne Tjønneland
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Affiliation The Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Merethe Kumle
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Affiliation University Hospital Northern Norway, Tromsø, Norway
- Elio Riboli
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Kristjan Välk
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Affiliation University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Tõnu Voodern
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Affiliation University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Andres Metspalu
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Affiliation University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Diana Zelenika
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Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, Institut Génomique, Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique, Evry, France
- Anne Boland
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Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, Institut Génomique, Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique, Evry, France
- Marc Delepine
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Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, Institut Génomique, Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique, Evry, France
- Mario Foglio
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Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, Institut Génomique, Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique, Evry, France
- Doris Lechner
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Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, Institut Génomique, Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique, Evry, France
- Hélène Blanché
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Affiliation Fondation Jean Dausset-CEPH, Paris, France
- Ivo G. Gut
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Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, Institut Génomique, Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique, Evry, France
- Pilar Galan
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Affiliation INSERM U557/U1125 INRA/CNAM, Université Paris 13, Bobigny, France
- Simon Heath
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Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, Institut Génomique, Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique, Evry, France
- Mia Hashibe
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
- Richard B. Hayes
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Affiliation New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Paolo Boffetta
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
- Mark Lathrop
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Affiliations Centre National de Génotypage, Institut Génomique, Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique, Evry, France, Fondation Jean Dausset-CEPH, Paris, France
- Paul Brennan
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* E-mail: brennan@iarc.fr
Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: D Zaridze, O Shangina, N Szeszenia-Dabrowska, J Lissowska, P Rudnai, E Fabianova, A Bucur, V Bencko, I Holcatova, V Janout, L Foretova, P Lagiou, D Trichopoulos, S Benhamou, C Bouchardy, W Ahrens, F Merletti, L Richiardi, R Talamini, L Barzan, K Kjaerheim, GJ Macfarlane, TV Macfarlane, L Simonato, C Canova, A Agudo, X Castellsagué, R Lowry, DI Conway, PA McKinney, CM Healy, ME Toner, A Znaor, MP Curado, S Koifman, A Menezes, V Wünsch-Filho, J Eluf Neto, L Fernández Garrote, S Boccia, G Cadoni, D Arzani, AF Olshan, MC Weissler, WK Funkhouser, J Luo, J Lubiński, J Trubicka, M Lener, D Oszutowska, SM Schwartz, C Chen, S Fish, DR Doody, JE Muscat, P Lazarus, CJ Gallagher, S-C Chang, Z-F Zhang, Q Wei, EM Sturgis, L-E Wang, S Franceschi, R Herrero, KT Kelsey, MD McClean, CJ Marsit, HH Nelson, M Romkes, S Buch, T Nukui, S Zhong, M Lacko, JJ Manni, WHM Peters, RJ Hung, J McLaughlin, L Vatten, I Njølstad, GE Goodman, JK Field, T Liloglou, P Vineis, F Clavel-Chapelon, D Palli, R Tumino, V Krogh, S Panico, CA González, JR Quirós, C Martínez, C Navarro, E Ardanaz, N Larrañaga, K-T Khaw, T Key, HB Bueno-de-Mesquita, PHM Peeters, A Trichopoulou, J Linseisen, H Boeing, G Hallmans, K Overvad, A Tjønneland, M Kumle, E Riboli, K Välk, T Voodern, A Metspalu, P Galan, M Hashibe, RB Hayes, P Boffetta, P Brennan. Performed the experiments: JD McKay, A Chabrier, D Zelenika, A Boland, M Delepine, M Foglio, D Lechner, H Blanché, IG Gut. Analyzed the data: JD McKay, T Truong, V Gaborieau, S-C Chuang, G Byrnes, S Heath, M Hashibe. Conceived and designed the experiments: RB Hayes, P Boffetta, M Lathrop, P Brennan. Wrote the paper: JD McKay, T Truong, P Brennan.