About the Authors

Wei Jie Seow

wes480@mail.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Angela Cecilia Pesatori

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan & Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Fondazione Ca Granda Maggiore Policlinico Hospital, Milan, Italy

Emmanuel Dimont

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter B. Farmer

Affiliation Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Benedetta Albetti

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan & Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Fondazione Ca Granda Maggiore Policlinico Hospital, Milan, Italy

Adrienne S. Ettinger

Affiliation Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Valentina Bollati

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan & Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Fondazione Ca Granda Maggiore Policlinico Hospital, Milan, Italy

Claudia Bolognesi

Affiliation Environmental Carcinogenesis Unit, Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico AOU San Martino-IST-National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy

Paola Roggieri

Affiliation Environmental Carcinogenesis Unit, Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico AOU San Martino-IST-National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy

Teodor I. Panev

Affiliation Department of Chemical Analyses, National Centre of Public Health and Analyses, Sofia, Bulgaria

Tzveta Georgieva

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Risk Assessment, National Center of Public Health and Analyses, Sofia, Bulgaria

Domenico Franco Merlo

Affiliation Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Trials, Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico AOU San Martino-IST-National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy

Pier Alberto Bertazzi

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan & Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Fondazione Ca Granda Maggiore Policlinico Hospital, Milan, Italy

Andrea A. Baccarelli

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP ASE VB DFM PAB AB. Performed the experiments: BA. Analyzed the data: WJS ED. Wrote the paper: WJS. Provided critical revisions for the manuscript: AP ED AB. Data collection and exposure assessment: CB PR TP TG PF DFM.