About the Authors

Wei Zheng

wei.zheng@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Dale F. McLerran

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Betsy A. Rolland

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Zhenming Fu

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Paolo Boffetta

Affiliations The Tisch Cancer Institute, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France

Jiang He

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Prakash Chandra Gupta

Affiliation Healis-Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Navi Mumbai, India

Kunnambath Ramadas

Affiliation Division of Radiation Oncology, Regional Cancer Center, Medical College Campus, Trivandrum, India

Shoichiro Tsugane

Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan

Fujiko Irie

Affiliation Department of Health and Social Services, Ibaraki Prefectural Government, Ibaraki, Japan

Akiko Tamakoshi

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan

Yu-Tang Gao

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, China

Woon-Puay Koh

Affiliations Duke–National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Xiao-Ou Shu

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Kotaro Ozasa

Affiliation Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan

Yoshikazu Nishino

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Miyagi Cancer Center Research Institute, Natori, Japan

Ichiro Tsuji

Affiliation Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Hideo Tanaka

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan

Chien-Jen Chen

Affiliations Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jian-Min Yuan

Affiliations Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yoon-Ok Ahn

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Keun-Young Yoo

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Habibul Ahsan

Affiliations Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, University of Chicago Cancer Research Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Wen-Harn Pan

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

You-Lin Qiao

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Institute/Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Dongfeng Gu

Affiliations Fuwai Hospital and Cardiovascular Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, China National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Beijing, China

Mangesh Suryakant Pednekar

Affiliation Healis-Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Navi Mumbai, India

Catherine Sauvaget

Affiliation Screening Group, Prevention and Early Detection Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Norie Sawada

Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan

Toshimi Sairenchi

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Dokkyo Medical University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan

Gong Yang

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Renwei Wang

Affiliations Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yong-Bing Xiang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, China

Waka Ohishi

Affiliation Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan

Masako Kakizaki

Affiliation Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Takashi Watanabe

Affiliation Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Isao Oze

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya, Japan

San-Lin You

Affiliation Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Yumi Sugawara

Affiliation Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Lesley M. Butler

Affiliations Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dong-Hyun Kim

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Okcheon-dong, Republic of Korea

Sue K. Park

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Faruque Parvez

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Shao-Yuan Chuang

Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine and Health Services Research, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan

Jin-Hu Fan

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Institute/Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Chen-Yang Shen

Affiliations Taiwan Biobank, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Environmental Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yu Chen

Affiliation Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Eric J. Grant

Affiliation Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan

Jung Eun Lee

Affiliation Department of Food and Nutrition, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Rashmi Sinha

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Keitaro Matsuo

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan

Mark Thornquist

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Manami Inoue

Affiliations Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan

Ziding Feng

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Daehee Kang

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

John D. Potter

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ JDP. Performed the experiments: WZ JDP DFM BAR ZF MT ZF. Analyzed the data: DFM ZF MT ZF WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WZ JH PCG KR ST FI AT YTG WPK XOS KO YN IT HT CJC JMY YOA KYY HA WHP YLQ DG MSP CS NS TS GY RW YBX WO MK TW IO SLY YS LMB DHK SKP FP SYC JHF CYS EJG JEL RS KM MI DK JDP. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: WZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: DFM PB YC EJG JEL RS MT ZF JDP. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: WZ DFM BAR ZF PB JH PCG KR ST FI AT YTG WPK XOS KO YN IT HT CJC JMY YOA KYY HA WHP YLQ DG MSP CS NS TS GY RW YBX WO MK TW IO SLY YS LMB DHK SKP FP SYC JHF CYS YC EJG JEL RS KM MT MI ZF DK JDP. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: WZ DFM BAR ZF PB JH PCG KR ST FI AT YTG WPK XOS KO YN IT HT CJC JMY YOA KYY HA WHP YLQ DG MSP CS NS TS GY RW YBX WO MK TW IO SLY YS LMB DHK SKP FP SYC JHF CYS YC EJG JEL RS KM MT MI ZF DK JDP. Enrolled patients:WZ JH PCG KR ST FI AT YTG WPK XOS KO YN IT HT CJC JMY YOA KYY HA WHP YLQ DG MSP CS NS TS GY RW YBX WO MK TW IO SLY YS LMB DHK SKP FP SYC JHF CYS EJG JEL RS KM MI DK JDP.