About the Authors

Magdalena B. Wozniak

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO-IARC), Lyon, France

Ghislaine Scelo

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO-IARC), Lyon, France

David C. Muller

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO-IARC), Lyon, France

Anush Mukeria

Affiliation Institute of Carcinogenesis, N. N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia

David Zaridze

Affiliation Institute of Carcinogenesis, N. N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia

Paul Brennan

gep@iarc.fr

Affiliation Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO-IARC), Lyon, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MBW GS PB. Performed the experiments: MBW. Analyzed the data: MBW DCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM DZ. Wrote the paper: MBW GS DCM AM DZ PB. Collection and assembly of data: MBW GS AM DZ.