About the Authors

Simona Surdu

ssurdu@albany.edu

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Rensselaer, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Rensselaer, New York, United States of America, Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York, United States of America

Edward F. Fitzgerald

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Rensselaer, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Rensselaer, New York, United States of America

Michael S. Bloom

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Rensselaer, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Rensselaer, New York, United States of America, Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York, United States of America

Francis P. Boscoe

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Rensselaer, New York, United States of America, New York State Cancer Registry, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

David O. Carpenter

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Rensselaer, New York, United States of America, Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York, United States of America

Richard F. Haase

Affiliations Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York, United States of America, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, School of Education, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York, United States of America

Eugen Gurzau

Affiliation Health Department, Environmental Health Center, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Peter Rudnai

Affiliation Department of Environmental Epidemiology, National Institute of Environmental Health, Budapest, Hungary

Kvetoslava Koppova

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Regional Authority of Public Health, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia

Joëlle Févotte

Affiliation UMRESTTE, Department of Epidemiological Research and Survey in Transport, Work and Environment, University of Lyon, Lyon, France

Giovanni Leonardi

Affiliations Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Health Protection Agency, Chilton, United Kingdom

Marie Vahter

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Walter Goessler

Affiliation Institut für Chemie-Analytische Chemie, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria

Rajiv Kumar

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Tony Fletcher

Affiliation Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS EF TF MSB FPB DOC RFH EG JF MV GL PR KK WG. Performed the experiments: SS EG PR KK MV WG. Analyzed the data: SS EF MSB FPB DOC RFH TF. Wrote the paper: SS EF MSB FPB DOC RFH TF MV RK.