About the Authors

Elodie Caboux

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Christophe Lallemand

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Gilles Ferro

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Bertrand Hémon

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Maimuna Mendy

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Carine Biessy

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Matt Sims

Affiliation Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nick Wareham

Affiliation Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Abigail Britten

Affiliation Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Anne Boland

Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, Institut Génomique, Commissariat à l’énergie Atomique, Evry, France

Amy Hutchinson

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Afshan Siddiq

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Paolo Vineis

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Elio Riboli

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Isabelle Romieu

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Sabina Rinaldi

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Marc J. Gunter

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Petra H. M. Peeters

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Yvonne T. van der Schouw

Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ruth Travis

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita

Affiliations National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Federico Canzian

Affiliation Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Maria-José Sánchez

Affiliation Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada (Spain) and CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Granada, Spain

Guri Skeie

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Karina Standahl Olsen

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Eiliv Lund

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Roberto Bilbao

Affiliation Fundación Vasca de Innovación e Investigación Sanitarias, Sondika, Bizkaia, Spain

Núria Sala

Affiliation Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO)-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain

Aurelio Barricarte

Affiliations Navarre Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain, Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública-CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

Domenico Palli

Affiliation Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute – ISPO, Florence, Italy

Carmen Navarro

Affiliations Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública-CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Authority, Murcia, Spain

Salvatore Panico

Affiliation Department of clinical and experimental medicine, Federico ii University, Naples, Italy

Maria Luisa Redondo

Affiliation Public Health Directorate, Asturias, Spain

Silvia Polidoro

Affiliation Human Genetics Foundation-HuGeF, Turin, Italy

Laure Dossus

Affiliation INSERM U1018, Gustave Roussy Institute, Paris South University, Villejuif, France

Marie Christine Boutron-Ruault

Affiliation INSERM U1018, Gustave Roussy Institute, Paris South University, Villejuif, France

Françoise Clavel-Chapelon

Affiliation INSERM U1018, Gustave Roussy Institute, Paris South University, Villejuif, France

Antonia Trichopoulou

Affiliations Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, University of Athens, Goudi, Athens, Greece, Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece

Dimitrios Trichopoulos

Affiliations Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts, Boston, United States of America, Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Pagona Lagiou

Affiliations Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, University of Athens, Goudi, Athens, Greece, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts, Boston, United States of America, Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Heiner Boeing

Affiliation Potsdam-Rehbrücke Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), Nuthetal, Germany

Eva Fisher

Affiliation Administrative Office of the Commission on Genetic Testing Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Rosario Tumino

Affiliation Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, “Civile M. P. Arezzo” Hospital, Ragusa, Italy

Claudia Agnoli

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Pierre Hainaut

pierre.hainaut@i-pri.org

Affiliation International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EC PH. Performed the experiments: CL. Analyzed the data: GF BH CB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS NW A. Britten A. Boland AH AS. Wrote the paper: EC PH. Head of Laboratory services and biobank group: MM Participation to the EPIC study and comments/suggestions on the manuscript: PV ER IR SR MJG PHMP YTS RT HBM FC MJS GS KSO EL RB NS A. Barricarte DP CN SP MLR SP LD MCBR FCC AT DT PL HB EF RT CA.