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Kidney Cancer
Editorial by Jozefina Casuscelli and A. Ari Hakimi on pp. 755
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756 of this issue
Genetic Variants Related to Longer Telomere Length are
Associated with Increased Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma
Mitchell J. Machiela
a ,Jonathan N. Hofmann
a ,Robert Carreras-Torres
b ,Kevin M. Brown
a ,Mattias Johansson
b ,Zhaoming Wang
c ,Matthieu Foll
b ,Peng Li
b ,Nathaniel Rothman
a ,Sharon A. Savage
a ,Valerie Gaborieau
b ,James D. McKay
b ,Yuanqing Ye
d ,Marc Henrion
e ,Fiona Bruinsma
f ,Susan Jordan
g , h ,Gianluca Severi
f , i , j , k ,Kristian Hveem
l ,Lars J. Vatten
m,
Tony Fletcher
n ,Kvetoslava Koppova
o ,Susanna C. Larsson
p ,Alicja Wolk
p,
Rosamonde E. Banks
q ,Peter J. Selby
q, Douglas F. Easton
r ,Paul Pharoah
r, Gabriella Andreotti
a ,Laura E. Beane Freeman
a ,Stella Koutros
a ,Demetrius Albanes
a ,Satu Mannisto
s ,Stephanie Weinstein
a ,Peter E. Clark
t ,Todd E. Edwards
t ,Loren Lipworth
t, Susan M. Gapstur
u ,Victoria L. Stevens
u ,Hallie Carol
v ,Matthew L. Freedman
v ,Mark M. Pomerantz
v ,Eunyoung Cho
w, Peter Kraft
x ,Mark A. Preston
y ,Kathryn M. Wilson
x ,J. Michael Gaziano
y , z ,Howard S. Sesso
x ,Amanda Black
a ,Neal D. Freedman
a ,Wen-Yi Huang
a ,John G. Anema
aa,
Richard J. Kahnoski
aa ,Brian R. Lane
aa , bb ,Sabrina L. Noyes
cc, David Petillo
cc, Leandro M. Colli
a ,Joshua N. Sampson
a ,Celine Besse
dd, Helene Blanche
ee ,Anne Boland
dd ,Laurie Burdette
a ,Egor Prokhortchouk
ff , gg, Konstantin G. Skryabin
ff , gg, Meredith Yeager
a ,Mirjana Mijuskovic
hh ,Miodrag Ognjanovic
ii ,Lenka Foretova
ii ,Ivana Holcatova
jj ,Vladimir Janout
kk ,Dana Mates
ll ,Anush Mukeriya
mm, Stefan Rascu
nn ,David Zaridze
mm ,Vladimir Bencko
oo ,Cezary Cybulski
pp ,Eleonora Fabianova
o ,Viorel Jinga
oo ,Jolanta Lissowska
rr, Jan Lubinski
qq, Marie Navratilova
jj ,Peter Rudnai
ss ,Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska
tt ,Simone Benhamou
uu , vv ,Geraldine Cancel-Tassin
ww , xx, Olivier Cussenot
ww , xx , yy ,H.
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, aaa , bbb , ccc ,Federico Canzian
ddd ,Eric J. Duell
eee ,Bo¨rje Ljungberg
fff ,Raviprakash T. Sitaram
fff ,Ulrike Peters
ggg ,Emily White
ggg ,Garnet L. Anderson
ggg ,Lisa Johnson
ggg, Juhua Luo
hhh,
Julie Buring
x ,I-Min Lee
x , y ,Wong-Ho Chow
d ,Lee E. Moore
a ,Christopher Wood
iii ,Timothy Eisen
jjj ,James Larkin
kkk ,Toni K. Choueiri
v ,G. Mark Lathrop
lll ,Bin Tean Teh
cc,
Jean-Francois Deleuze
dd , ee ,Xifeng Wu
d ,Richard S. Houlston
mmm, Paul Brennan
b ,Stephen J. Chanock
a ,Ghislaine Scelo
b ,Mark P. Purdue
a , *a
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department Health and Human Services, Bethesda,
MS, USA;
b
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France;
c
St. Jude Children
’
s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA;
d
Department of
Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA;
e
Icahn School
of Medicine, New York, NY, USA;
f
Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia;
g
QIMR Berghofer Medical
Research Institute, Herston, Queensland, Australia;
h
School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;
i
Centre for Epidemiology and
Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia;
j
Human Genetics Foundation (HuGeF),
E U R O P E A N U R O L O GY 7 2 ( 2 0 17 ) 74 7 – 7 5 4ava ilable at
www.sciencedirect.comjournal homepage:
www.eu ropeanurology.com* Corresponding author. 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 6E140, Bethesda, MD 20892-9776, USA.
Tel. +1 240 276 7265.
E-mail address:
purduem@mail.nih.gov(M.P. Purdue).
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