About the Authors
- Behnoush Abedi-Ardekani
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Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, Social Security Organization, Tehran, Iran
- Farin Kamangar
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Affiliations Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Public Health Analysis, School of Community Health and Policy, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Masoud Sotoudeh
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Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Stephanie Villar
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Farhad Islami
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Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America
- Karim Aghcheli
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Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Dariush Nasrollahzadeh
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Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Noushin Taghavi
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Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Sanford M. Dawsey
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Christian C. Abnet
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Stephen M. Hewitt
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Affiliation Tissue Array Research Program, Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Saman Fahimi
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Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Farrokh Saidi
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Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Paul Brennan
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Paolo Boffetta
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Affiliations Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France
- Reza Malekzadeh
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Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Pierre Hainaut
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* E-mail: hainaut@iarc.fr
Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PH BA-A RM. Performed the experiments: BA-A SV. Analyzed the data: FI FK CCA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS KA DN NT SF SMH SMD PH RM. Wrote the paper: BA-A PH. Critical revision of the manuscript: P. Brennan P. Boffeta CCA SMD FK RM FS.