About the Authors

Anne-Claire Vergnaud

a.vergnaud@imperial.ac.uk

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

Teresa Norat

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

Traci Mouw

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

Dora Romaguera

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

Anne M. May

Affiliations Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita

Affiliations National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Daphne van der A

Affiliation National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Antonio Agudo

Affiliation Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain

Nicholas Wareham

Affiliation Medical Research Council, Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Kay-Tee Khaw

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Isabelle Romieu

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO), Lyon, France

Heinz Freisling

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO), Lyon, France

Nadia Slimani

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO), Lyon, France

Florence Perquier

Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), ERI 20, EA 4045, Villejuif, France, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault

Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), ERI 20, EA 4045, Villejuif, France, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

Françoise Clavel-Chapelon

Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), ERI 20, EA 4045, Villejuif, France, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

Domenico Palli

Affiliation Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, CSPO-Scientific Institute of Tuscany, Florence, Italy

Franco Berrino

Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, IRCCS Foundation, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy

Amalia Mattiello

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University, Naples, Italy

Rosario Tumino

Affiliation Cancer Registry and Histopathology Unit, “Civile M.p.Arezzo” Hospital, Ragusa, Italy

Fulvio Ricceri

Affiliation Human Genetics Foundation, HuGeF, Turin, Italy

Laudina Rodríguez

Affiliation Public Health and Participation Directorate, Health and Health Care Services Council, Asturias, Spain

Esther Molina-Montes

Affiliations Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain, Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública-CIBERESP), Spain

Pilar Amiano

Affiliations Public Health Department of Gipuzkoa, Basque Regional Health Department, San Sebastian, Spain and Biodonostia, Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública-CIBERESP), Spain

Aurelio Barricarte

Affiliations Navarre Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain, Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública-CIBERESP), Spain

Maria-Dolores Chirlaque

Affiliations Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública-CIBERESP), Spain, Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Authority, Murcia, Spain

Francesca L. Crowe

Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Philippos Orfanos

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece

Androniki Naska

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece

Antonia Trichopoulou

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Center for Food and Nutrition Policies, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece

Birgit Teucher

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Rudolf Kaaks

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Heiner Boeing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Brian Buijsse

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Ingeged Johansson

Affiliation Department of Odontology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Göran Hallmans

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Nutritional Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Isabel Drake

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Nutrition Epidemiology, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Emily Sonestedt

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Nutrition Epidemiology, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Marianne Uhre Jakobsen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Kim Overvad

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Cardiology Center for Cardiovascular Research Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Anne Tjønneland

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jytte Halkjær

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Guri Skeie

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Tonje Braaten

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Eiliv Lund

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Elio Riboli

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

Petra H. M. Peeters

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Approved the manuscript: AMM PHMP TM HBB AA NW KTK NS FCC DP FB RT PA AB MDC PO AN A. Trichopoulou RK HB GH MUJ KO A. Tjønneland GS EL ER DvdA IR HF FP MCBR AM FR LR EMM FLC BT BB IJ ID ES JH TB. Reviewed and commented on the analysis and interpretation of the findings: AMM PHMP TM HBB AA NW KTK NS FCC DP FB RT PA AB MDC PO AN A. Trichopoulou RK HB GH MUJ KO A. Tjønneland GS EL ER DvdA IR HF FP MCBR AM FR LR EMM FLC BT BB IJ ID ES JH TB. Interpretation of results: ACV TN DR AMM PHMP. Analyzed the data: ACV. Wrote the paper: ACV TN DR.