Obesity, metabolic factors and risk of different histological types of lung cancer: A Mendelian randomization study.

Obesity, metabolic factors and risk of different histological types of lung cancer: A Mendelian randomization study.

<h4>Background</h4>Assessing the relationship between lung cancer and metabolic conditions is challenging because of the confounding effect of tobacco. Mendelian randomization (MR), or the use of genetic instrumental variables to assess causality, may help to identify the metabolic drive...

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Main Authors: Robert Carreras-Torres, Mattias Johansson, Philip C Haycock, Kaitlin H Wade, Caroline L Relton, Richard M Martin, George Davey Smith, Demetrius Albanes, Melinda C Aldrich, Angeline Andrew, Susanne M Arnold, Heike Bickeböller, Stig E Bojesen, Hans Brunnström, Jonas Manjer, Irene Brüske, Neil E Caporaso, Chu Chen, David C Christiani, W Jay Christian, Jennifer A Doherty, Eric J Duell, John K Field, Michael P A Davies, Michael W Marcus, Gary E Goodman, Kjell Grankvist, Aage Haugen, Yun-Chul Hong, Lambertus A Kiemeney, Erik H F M van der Heijden, Peter Kraft, Mikael B Johansson, Stephen Lam, Maria Teresa Landi, Philip Lazarus, Loïc Le Marchand, Geoffrey Liu, Olle Melander, Sungshim L Park, Gad Rennert, Angela Risch, Eric B Haura, Ghislaine Scelo, David Zaridze, Anush Mukeriya, Milan Savić, Jolanta Lissowska, Beata Swiatkowska, Vladimir Janout, Ivana Holcatova, Dana Mates, Matthew B Schabath, Hongbing Shen, Adonina Tardon, M Dawn Teare, Penella Woll, Ming-Sound Tsao, Xifeng Wu, Jian-Min Yuan, Rayjean J Hung, Christopher I Amos, James McKay, Paul Brennan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177875
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