About the Authors

Aurelie Moskal

moskala@iarc.fr

Affiliation Dietary Exposure Assessment Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Pedro T. Pisa

Affiliation Dietary Exposure Assessment Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Pietro Ferrari

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Graham Byrnes

Affiliation Biostatistics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Heinz Freisling

Affiliation Dietary Exposure Assessment Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault

Affiliations Center for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Nutrition, Hormones and Women’s Health, INSERM U1018, Villejuif, France, Université Paris Sud, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France

Claire Cadeau

Affiliations Center for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Nutrition, Hormones and Women’s Health, INSERM U1018, Villejuif, France, Université Paris Sud, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France

Laura Nailler

Affiliations Center for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Nutrition, Hormones and Women’s Health, INSERM U1018, Villejuif, France, Université Paris Sud, UMRS 1018, Villejuif, France, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France

Andrea Wendt

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

Tilman Kühn

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

Heiner Boeing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Brian Buijsse

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Anne Tjønneland

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Diet, Genes and Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jytte Halkjær

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Diet, Genes and Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark

Christina C. Dahm

Affiliation Section for Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Stephanie E. Chiuve

Affiliations Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jose R. Quirós

Affiliation Public Health and Health Planning Directorate, Asturias, Spain

Genevieve Buckland

Affiliation Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Programme, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain

Esther Molina-Montes

Affiliation Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain

Pilar Amiano

Affiliations Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública-CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, BIODonostia Research Institute, San Sebastian, Spain

José M. Huerta Castaño

Affiliations Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública-CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, Murcia, Spain

Aurelio Barricarte Gurrea

Affiliations Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública-CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Navarre Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain

Kay-Tee Khaw

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Marleen A. Lentjes

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Timothy J. Key

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Dora Romaguera

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Madrid, Spain

Anne-Claire Vergnaud

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Antonia Trichopoulou

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece

Christina Bamia

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece

Philippos Orfanos

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece

Domenico Palli

Affiliation Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute ISPO, Florence, Italy

Valeria Pala

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Rosario Tumino

Affiliation Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, “Civile - M.P. Arezzo” Hospital, Ragusa, Italy

Carlotta Sacerdote

Affiliation HuGeF Foundation and Center for Cancer Prevention CPO-Piemonte, Torino, Italy

Maria Santucci de Magistris

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University, Naples, Italy

H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita

Affiliations The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Marga C. Ocké

Affiliation The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Joline W. J. Beulens

Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ulrika Ericson

Affiliation Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Isabel Drake

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Research Group in Nutritional Epidemiology, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Lena M. Nilsson

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Nutrition Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Anna Winkvist

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Elisabete Weiderpass

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Samfundet Folkhälsan, Helsinki, Finland

Anette Hjartåker

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Elio Riboli

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Nadia Slimani

Affiliation Dietary Exposure Assessment Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS AM PF G. Byrnes. Performed the experiments: AM G. Byrnes. Analyzed the data: AM G. Byrnes NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM NS PF G. Byrnes PP HF. Wrote the paper: AM PP NS. Commented on the analysis and interpretation of the findings and approved the manuscript: PF G. Byrnes MCBR CC LN AW TK HB BB AT JH CCD SEC JRQ G. Buckland EMM PA JMHC ABG KTK MAL TJK DR ACV AT CB PO DP VP RT CS MSM HBBM MCO JWJB UE ID LN AW EW AH ER.