Official journal of the American Faculty of Gastroenterology

¹Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;

²Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;

³Center of Gastrointestinal Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China;

⁴Department of General Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld Heidelberg, Germany;

⁵Section for Colorectal Cancer Screening, Cancer Registry of Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway;

⁶Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway;

⁷Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;

⁸Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;

⁹Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;

¹⁰Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;

¹¹Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;

¹²Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;

¹³Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA;

¹⁴Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

^aCorresponding writer: Dr. Mingyang Song: Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA. E-mail:[email protected]