Jihyoun Jeon, PhD1,*, Mengmeng Du, ScD2, Robert E. Schoen, MD, MPH3, Michael Hoffmeister, PhD4,5,6, Polly A. Newcomb, PhD7, Sonja I. Berndt, PharmD, PhD8, Bette Caan, DrPH9, Peter T. Campbell, PhD10, Andrew T. Chan, MD11,12,13, Jenny ChangClaude, PhD4,5,6, Graham G. Giles, PhD14, Jian Gong, PhD7, Tabitha A. Harrison, MPH7, Jeroen R. Huyghe, PhD7, Eric J. Jacobs, PhD10, Li Li, MD, PhD15, Yi Lin, MS7, Loic Le Marchand, MD, PhD16, John D. Potter, MD, PhD7, Flora Qu, MS7, Stephanie A. Bien, PhD7, Niha Zubair, PhD7, Robert J. Macinnis, PhD14, Daniel D. Buchanan, PhD17,18,19, John L. Hopper, PhD18,20, Yin Cao, DSc11,12, Reiko Nishihara, PhD11, Gad Rennert, MD, PhD21, Martha L. Slattery, PhD22, Duncan C. Thomas, PhD23, Michael O. Woods, PhD24, Ross L. Prentice, PhD7, Stephen B. Gruber, MD, PhD25, Yingye Zheng, PhD7, Hermann Brenner, MD4,5,6, Richard B. Hayes, DDS, PhD26, Emily White, PhD7, Ulrike Peters, PhD7,*, Li Hsu, PhD7,* on behalf of the Colorectal Transdisciplinary (CORECT) Study and Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium (GECCO)
1 Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2 Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, USA
3 Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA
4 Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
5 Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
6 German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
7 Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
8 Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, USA
9 Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, USA
10 Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, USA
11 Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
12 Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
13 Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
14 Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, and Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Global and Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
15 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
16 Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, USA
17 Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia;
18 Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia;
19 Genetic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
20 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
21 Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
22 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, USA
23 Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
24 Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada
25 USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
26 Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
*Corresponding Authors:
Jihyoun Jeon: 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor MI 48109-2029.
Ulrike Peters: 1100 Fairview Ave. N., M4-B402, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109
Li Hsu: 1100 Fairview Ave. N., M2-B500, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109