About the Authors
- Asieh Golozar
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Contributed equally to this work with: Asieh Golozar, Hooman Khademi
Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Hooman Khademi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Asieh Golozar, Hooman Khademi
Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Farin Kamangar
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Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Public Health Analysis, School of Community Health and Policy, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Hossein Poutschi
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Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Farhad Islami
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Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Christian C. Abnet
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Neal D. Freedman
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Philip R. Taylor
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Paul Pharoah
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Affiliation Cancer Research UK, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Paolo Boffetta
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Affiliations The Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, New York, New York, United States of America, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France
- Paul J. Brennan
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Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Sanford M. Dawsey
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Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Reza Malekzadeh
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Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Arash Etemadi
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* E-mail: etemadia@mail.nih.gov
Affiliations Digestive Disease Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 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: AE FK FI CCA PB SMD RM. Performed the experiments: HP HK AE. Analyzed the data: AG AE FK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM SMD PB PJB CCA. Wrote the paper: AG AE. Commented on the draft and edited the draft: NDF PRT PP. Read and approved the manuscript: AG HK FK HP FI CCA NDF PRT PP PB PJB SMD RM AE.