Smoking, alcohol consumption, and cancer: A mendelian randomisation study in UK Biobank and international genetic consortia participants.
<h4>Background</h4>Smoking is a well-established cause of lung cancer and there is strong evidence that smoking also increases the risk of several other cancers. Alcohol consumption has been inconsistently associated with cancer risk in observational studies. This mendelian randomisation...
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| Main Authors: | Susanna C Larsson, Paul Carter, Siddhartha Kar, Mathew Vithayathil, Amy M Mason, Karl Michaëlsson, Stephen Burgess |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-07-01
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| Series: | PLoS Medicine |
| Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003178&type=printable |
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