About the Authors

P. Sivaramakrishna Rachakonda

Contributed equally to this work with: P. Sivaramakrishna Rachakonda, Andrea S. Bauer

s.rachakonda@dkfz.de

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Andrea S. Bauer

Contributed equally to this work with: P. Sivaramakrishna Rachakonda, Andrea S. Bauer

Affiliation Division of Functional Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Huaping Xie

Affiliations Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Gastroenterology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Daniele Campa

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Cosmeri Rizzato

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Federico Canzian

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Stefania Beghelli

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Diagnostics, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy

William Greenhalf

Affiliation National Institute for Health Research, Pancreas Biomedical Research Unit and Cancer Research UK Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Eithne Costello

Affiliation National Institute for Health Research, Pancreas Biomedical Research Unit and Cancer Research UK Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Michaela Schanne

Affiliation Division of Functional Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Anette Heller

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Aldo Scarpa

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Diagnostics, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy

John P. Neoptolemos

Affiliation National Institute for Health Research, Pancreas Biomedical Research Unit and Cancer Research UK Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Jens Werner

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Markus Büchler

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Jörg D. Hoheisel

Affiliation Division of Functional Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Kari Hemminki

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

Nathalia Giese

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Rajiv Kumar

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Acquisition of data: PSR ASB HX DC CR SB WG EC MS AH AS JPN JW MB JDH NG RK. Development of methodology: PSR ASB HX SB WG EC MS AH AS JPN JW MBr JDH NG. Conceived and designed the experiments: PSR ASB FC AS JPN JDH KH NG RK. Analyzed the data: PSR ASB HX DC CR FC SB WG EC MS AH AS JPN JW MB JDH KH NG RK. Wrote the paper: PSR ASB HX DC CR FC SB WG EC MS AH AS JPN JW MB JDH KH NG RK.