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Mendelian randomization study of height and risk of colorectal cancer

Author(s) -

Aaron P. Thrift,

Jian Gong,

U. Peters,

Jenny ChangClaude,

Anja Rudolph,

Martha L. Slattery,

Andrew T. Chan,

Tõnu Esko,

Andrew R. Wood,

Jian Yang,

S. Vedantam,

S. Gustafsson,

Tune H. Pers,

J. A. Baron,

Stéphane Bézieau,

Sébastien Küry,

Shuji Ogino,

Sonja I. Berndt,

Graham Casey,

Robert W. Haile,

Mengmeng Du,

Tabitha A. Harrison,

M. Thornquist,

David Duggan,

Loı̈c Le Marchand,

Mathieu Lemire,

N. M. Lindor,

Daniela Seminara,

Mingyang Song,

Steven Thibodeau,

Michelle Cotterchio,

Aung Ko Win,

Mark A. Jenkins,

John L. Hopper,

Cornelia M. Ulrich,

John D. Potter,

PA Newcomb,

Robert E. Schoen,

Michael Hoffmeister,

Hermann Brenner,

Emily White,

Li Hsu,

P. Campbell

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyv082

Subject(s) - mendelian randomization , medicine , confounding , odds ratio , confidence interval , demography , colorectal cancer , logistic regression , relative risk , oncology , cancer , genotype , genetics , genetic variants , biology , sociology , gene

For men and women, taller height is associated with increased risk of all cancers combined. For colorectal cancer (CRC), it is unclear whether the differential association of height by sex is real or is due to confounding or bias inherent in observational studies. We performed a Mendelian randomization study to examine the association between height and CRC risk.

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