About the Authors
- Dana M. van Bemmel
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* E-mail: vanbemmeld@mail.nih.gov
Affiliations Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, Office of the Director, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Paolo Boffetta
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Affiliations The Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France
- Linda M. Liao
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Sonja I. Berndt
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Idan Menashe
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Meredith Yeager
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Affiliation Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
- Stephen Chanock
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Affiliation Core Genotyping Facility, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
- Sara Karami
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- David Zaridze
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Affiliation Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia
- Vsevolod Matteev
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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
- Hellena 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, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Marie Navratilova
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Affiliation Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
- Neonilia Szeszenia-Dabrowska
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Affiliation Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland
- Dana Mates
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Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania
- Alena Slamova
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Nathaniel Rothman
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Summer S. Han
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Philip S. Rosenberg
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Paul Brennan
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Affiliations The Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France
- Wong-Ho Chow
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Lee E. Moore
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: P. Boffetta DZ VJ HK VB MN NSD DM P. Brennan NR WHC LEM. Performed the experiments: P. Boffetta MY SC NSD DM AS WHC LEM. Analyzed the data: DvB LML SK SIB IM SSH PSR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: P. Boffetta LML SK IM SIB MY SC DZ VM VJ HK VB MN NSD DM SSH PSR WHC LEM. Wrote the paper: DvB. Critical review: P. Boffetta LML SIB VB SSH PSR WHC LEM. PI IARC: P. Boffetta. PI Russia: DZ. PI Olomouc: VJ. PI Czech Republic-Prague: VB. PI Poland: NSD. PI Romania: DM. Co-PI NCI: NR WHC LEM.