About the Authors
- Sara Karami
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* E-mail: 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
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Philip S. Rosenberg
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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
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Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
- Dana Mates
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Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania
- David Zaridze
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Affiliation Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia
- Vladimir Janout
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Helena Kollarova
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Vladimir Bencko
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Vsevolod Matveev
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Affiliation Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia
- Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland
- Ivana Holcatova
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Meredith Yeager
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Lee E. Moore
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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.