About the Authors

Calogerina Catalano

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

c.catalano@dkfz.de

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

Miguel Inacio da Silva Filho

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

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

Christoph Frank

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

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

Katerina Jiraskova

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Veronika Vymetalkova

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Miroslav Levy

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Surgery, First Medical Faculty, Charles University and Thomayer Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

Vaclav Liska

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Surgery, First Medical Faculty, Charles University and Thomayer Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University Prague, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Ondrej Vycital

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Surgery, First Medical Faculty, Charles University and Thomayer Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University Prague, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Alessio Naccarati

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM), Turin, Italy

Ludmila Vodickova

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University Prague, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Kari Hemminki

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Pavel Vodicka

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University Prague, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Alexander N. R. Weber

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Asta Försti

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.