About the Authors

Michael B. Hadley

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

michael.hadley@mountsinai.org

Affiliation Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Mahdi Nalini

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Cardiovascular Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

Samrachana Adhikari

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

Affiliation New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Jackie Szymonifka

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Arash Etemadi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Farin Kamangar

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, School of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Masoud Khoshnia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Golestan, Iran

Tyler McChane

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Akram Pourshams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Hossein Poustchi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Sadaf G. Sepanlou

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Christian Abnet

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Neal D. Freedman

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Paolo Boffetta

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Reza Malekzadeh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Rajesh Vedanthan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.