Breast cancer risk factors and their effects on survival: a Mendelian randomisation study

M Escala-Garcia, A Morra, S Canisius, J Chang-Claude… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Observational studies have investigated the association of risk factors with
breast cancer prognosis. However, the results have been conflicting and it has been …

Body size and composition and risk of site-specific cancers in the UK Biobank and large international consortia: A mendelian randomisation study

M Vithayathil, P Carter, S Kar, AM Mason… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Evidence for the impact of body size and composition on cancer risk is limited.
This mendelian randomisation (MR) study investigates evidence supporting causal …

Insights into breast cancer in the east vs the west: a review

YS Yap, YS Lu, K Tamura, JE Lee, EY Ko… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance During the past few decades, the incidence of breast cancer (BC) has been
increasing rapidly in East Asia, and BC is currently the most common cancer in several …

A transcriptome-wide association study of 229,000 women identifies new candidate susceptibility genes for breast cancer

L Wu, W Shi, J Long, X Guo, K Michailidou, J Beesley… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The breast cancer risk variants identified in genome-wide association studies explain only a
small fraction of the familial relative risk, and the genes responsible for these associations …

Genome-wide association analyses of breast cancer in women of African ancestry identify new susceptibility loci and improve risk prediction

G Jia, J Ping, X Guo, Y Yang, R Tao, B Li, S Ambs… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We performed genome-wide association studies of breast cancer including 18,034 cases
and 22,104 controls of African ancestry. Genetic variants at 12 loci were associated with …

Causal relationship between genetically predicted depression and cancer risk: a two-sample bi-directional mendelian randomization

GL Zhu, C Xu, K Yang, SQ Tang, LL Tang, L Chen… - BMC cancer, 2022 - Springer
Background Depression has been reported to be associated with some types of cancer in
observational studies. However, the direction and magnitude of the causal relationships …

Strategies to investigate and mitigate collider bias in genetic and Mendelian randomisation studies of disease progression

RE Mitchell, AE Hartley, VM Walker, A Gkatzionis… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Genetic studies of disease progression can be used to identify factors that may influence
survival or prognosis, which may differ from factors that influence on disease susceptibility …

Mendelian randomization analyses of 23 known and suspected risk factors and biomarkers for breast cancer overall and by molecular subtypes

F Chen, W Wen, J Long, X Shu, Y Yang… - … journal of cancer, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many risk factors have been identified for breast cancer. The potential causality for some of
them remains uncertain, and few studies have comprehensively investigated these …

CRISPR screens identify gene targets at breast cancer risk loci

NK Tuano, J Beesley, M Manning, W Shi… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified> 200 loci associated
with breast cancer risk. The majority of candidate causal variants are in non-coding regions …

Identifying loci with different allele frequencies among cases of eight psychiatric disorders using CC-GWAS

WJ Peyrot, AL Price - Nature genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders are highly genetically correlated, but little research has been
conducted on the genetic differences between disorders. We developed a new method …