Body size and risk of colorectal cancer molecular defined subtypes and pathways: Mendelian randomization analysesResearch in context

• Published in: EBioMedicine Vol. 101; p. 105010
• Main Authors: Nikos Papadimitriou, Conghui Qu, Tabitha A. Harrison, Alaina M. Bever, Richard M. Martin, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Polly A. Newcomb, Stephen N. Thibodeau, Christina C. Newton, Caroline Y. Um, Mireia Obón-Santacana, Victor Moreno, Hermann Brenner, Marko Mandic, Jenny Chang-Claude, Michael Hoffmeister, Andrew J. Pellatt, Robert E. Schoen, Sophia Harlid, Shuji Ogino, Tomotaka Ugai, Daniel D. Buchanan, Brigid M. Lynch, Stephen B. Gruber, Yin Cao, Li Hsu, Jeroen R. Huyghe, Yi Lin, Robert S. Steinfelder, Wei Sun, Bethany Van Guelpen, Syed H. Zaidi, Amanda E. Toland, Sonja I. Berndt, Wen-Yi Huang, Elom K. Aglago, David A. Drew, Amy J. French, Peter Georgeson, Marios Giannakis, Meredith Hullar, Johnathan A. Nowak, Claire E. Thomas, Loic Le Marchand, Iona Cheng, Steven Gallinger, Mark A. Jenkins, Marc J. Gunter, Peter T. Campbell, Ulrike Peters, Mingyang Song, Amanda I. Phipps, Neil Murphy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 01.03.2024
• Subjects: Colorectal cancer; Mendelian randomization; Molecular subtypes; Obesity

Background: Obesity has been positively associated with most molecular subtypes of colorectal cancer (CRC); however, the magnitude and the causality of these associations is uncertain. Methods: We used Mendelian randomization (MR) to examine potential causal relationships between body size traits (b...