About the Authors

Stephanie J. Weinstein

weinstes@mail.nih.gov (SJW); daa@nih.gov (DA)

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Servies, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ulrike Peters

Affiliations Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jiyoung Ahn

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Marlin D. Friesen

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Elio Riboli

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Richard B. Hayes

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Demetrius Albanes

weinstes@mail.nih.gov (SJW); daa@nih.gov (DA)

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Servies, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UP JA RBH DA. Performed the experiments: MDF. Analyzed the data: SJW DA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDF ER. Wrote the paper: SJW DA.