About the Authors

Dana M. van Bemmel

vanbemmeld@mail.nih.gov

Affiliations Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, Office of the Director, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Paolo Boffetta

Affiliations The Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France

Linda M. Liao

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

Sonja I. Berndt

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

Idan Menashe

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

Meredith Yeager

Affiliation Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen Chanock

Affiliation Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Sara Karami

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

David Zaridze

Affiliation Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia

Vsevolod Matteev

Affiliation Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia

Vladimir Janout

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Hellena Kollarova

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Vladimir Bencko

Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Marie Navratilova

Affiliation Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic

Neonilia Szeszenia-Dabrowska

Affiliation Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland

Dana Mates

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania

Alena Slamova

Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Nathaniel Rothman

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

Summer S. Han

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

Philip S. Rosenberg

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

Paul Brennan

Affiliations The Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France

Wong-Ho Chow

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

Lee E. Moore

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: P. Boffetta DZ VJ HK VB MN NSD DM P. Brennan NR WHC LEM. Performed the experiments: P. Boffetta MY SC NSD DM AS WHC LEM. Analyzed the data: DvB LML SK SIB IM SSH PSR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: P. Boffetta LML SK IM SIB MY SC DZ VM VJ HK VB MN NSD DM SSH PSR WHC LEM. Wrote the paper: DvB. Critical review: P. Boffetta LML SIB VB SSH PSR WHC LEM. PI IARC: P. Boffetta. PI Russia: DZ. PI Olomouc: VJ. PI Czech Republic-Prague: VB. PI Poland: NSD. PI Romania: DM. Co-PI NCI: NR WHC LEM.