About the Authors

Sara Karami

karamis@mail.nih.gov

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

Paul Brennan

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Philip S. Rosenberg

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

Marie Navratilova

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic

Dana Mates

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania

David Zaridze

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

Vladimir Janout

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

Helena Kollarova

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

Vladimir Bencko

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

Vsevolod Matveev

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

Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland

Ivana Holcatova

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

Meredith Yeager

Affiliation Core Genotyping Facility at the Advanced Technology Center of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen Chanock

Affiliation Core Genotyping Facility at the Advanced Technology Center of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Idan Menashe

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

Nathaniel Rothman

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

Wong-Ho Chow

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

Paolo Boffetta

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Lee E. Moore

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PB MY SJC NR WHC PB LEM. Performed the experiments: MN DM DZ VJ HK VB VM NSD IH MY SJC. Analyzed the data: SK PR IM LEM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PR MN DM DZ VJ HK VB VM NSD IH MY SJC IM. Wrote the paper: SK. Helped write paper: LEM.