About the Authors

Ben Schöttker

b.schoettker@dkfz.de

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Eugène H. J. M. Jansen

Affiliation Laboratory for Health Protection Research, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Ulrike Haug

Affiliation Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Lutz Schomburg

Affiliation Institut für Experimentelle Endokrinologie, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Josef Köhrle

Affiliation Institut für Experimentelle Endokrinologie, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Hermann Brenner

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS EJ UH HB LS JK. Performed the experiments: EJ LS JK. Analyzed the data: BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EJ LS JK. Wrote the paper: BS. Commented on the manuscript draft: EJ UH HB LS JK.