Radon-induced lung cancer deaths may be overestimated due to failure to account for confounding by exposure to diesel engine exhaust in BEIR VI miner studies

• Xiaodong Cao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5323-0438

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• Piers MacNaughton,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jose Cedeno Laurent,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Joseph G. Allen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jgallen@hsph.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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