About the Authors

Xing Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Xu, Elham Kharazmi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Preventive Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Elham Kharazmi

Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Xu, Elham Kharazmi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Preventive Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Yu Tian

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Preventive Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Trasias Mukama

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Preventive Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Kristina Sundquist

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, United States of America, Center for Community-based Healthcare Research and Education (CoHRE), Department of Functional Pathology, School of Medicine, Shimane University, Izumo, Japan

Jan Sundquist

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, United States of America, Center for Community-based Healthcare Research and Education (CoHRE), Department of Functional Pathology, School of Medicine, Shimane University, Izumo, Japan

Hermann Brenner

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Preventive Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Mahdi Fallah

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

m.fallah@dkfz.de

Affiliations Division of Preventive Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.