About the Authors
- Dariush Nasrollahzadeh
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Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Digestive Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Karim Aghcheli
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Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Masoud Sotoudeh
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Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Ramin Shakeri
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Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- E. Christina Persson
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Farhad Islami
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Affiliations International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, Digestive Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Farin Kamangar
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Affiliations Department of Public Health Analysis, School of Community Health and Policy, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Digestive Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Christian C. Abnet
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Paolo Boffetta
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Affiliations The Tisch Cancer Institute and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France
- Lars Engstrand
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Affiliation Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sanford M. Dawsey
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Reza Malekzadeh
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* E-mail: malek@ams.ac.ir (RM); weimin.ye@ki.se (WY)
Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Weimin Ye
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* E-mail: malek@ams.ac.ir (RM); weimin.ye@ki.se (WY)
Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: WY DN MS LE RM CCA SMD PB FI FK RS. Performed the experiments: DN KA MS ECP. Analyzed the data: DN. Wrote the paper: DN SD.