Guidelines and Guidance STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology – Molecular Epidemiology (STROBE- ME): An Extension of the STROBE Statement

1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2 Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 4 International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Lyon, France, 5 Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, 6 Stanford Prevention Research Centre, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 7 Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece, 8 Laboratory for Cell Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 9 HuGeF Human Genetics Foundation, Turin, Italy, 10 Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, 11 Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom, 12 National Institute of Environmental Health, Budapest, Hungary, 13 Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 14 Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 15 Institut Municipal d’Investigacio Medica (IMIM), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 16 MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom