Obesity and risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma and barrett's esophagus: A mendelian randomization study

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Thrift, Aaron P ^a,b   Shaheen, Nicholas J ^c   Gammon, Marilie D ^d   Bernstein, Leslie ^e   Reid, Brian J ^a   Onstad, Lynn ^a   Risch, Harvey A ^f   Liu, Geoffrey ^g   Bird, Nigel C ^h   Wu, Anna H ⁱ   Corley, Douglas A ^j   Romero, Yvonne ^k,r   Chanock, Stephen J ^l   Chow, Wong Ho ^m   Casson, Alan G ⁿ   Levine, David M ^o   Zhang, Rui ^o   Ek, Weronica E ^b   MacGregor, Stuart ^b   Ye, Weimin ^p   Hardie, Laura J ^q   Vaughan, Thomas L ^a   Whiteman, David C ^b   Achem, Sami R ^k   Ahlquist, David A ^r   Alberts, Steven R ^r   Alexander, Jeffrey A ^r   Allen, Mark S ^r   Arora, Amindra S ^r   Ashman, Jonathan B ^k   Atherton, Pamela J ^r   Boardman, Lisa A ^r   Bouras, Ernest P ^k   Bryhn, Vicki A ^r   Burch, Patrick A ^r   Burdick, George E ^r   Buttar, Navtej S ^r   Camoriano, John K ^k   Cangemi, John R ^k   Cassivi, Stephen D ^r   Cayer, Frances K ^k   Clayton, Amy C ^r   Crowell, Michael D ^k   Cunningham, Julie M ^r   De Andrade, Mariza ^r   De Groen, Piet ^r   De Petris, Giovani ^k   Deschamps, Claude ^r   DeVault, Kenneth R ^k   Diasio, Robert B ^r   DiBaise, John K ^k   Edell, Eric S ^r   Elcombe, Sharon ^r   Erlichman, Charles ^r   Faigel, Douglas O ^k   Fitch, Tom R ^k   Fleischer, David E ^k   Fox, Jean C ^r   Foxx Orenstein, Amy E ^r   Francis, Dawn ^r   Fredericksen, Mary B ^r   Galanis, Evanthia ^r   Geno, Debra M ^r   Grothey, Axel ^r   Haddock, Michael G ^r   Halling, Kevin C ^r   Harnois, Denise M ^k   Hilton, Tracy W ^k   Hobday, Timothy ^r   Houghton, Lesley A ^k   Iyer, Prasad A ^r   Jaroszewski, Dawn E ^k   Jatoi, Aminah ^r   Jenkins, Robert B ^r   Johnson, Elizabeth A ^k   Katipamula, Rajni ^r   Katzka, David A ^r   Kaufman, Sharon F ^r   Keaveny, Andrew P ^k   Keller, Daniel A ^r   Kim, George P ^k   Kipp, Benjamin R ^r   Lam Himlin, Dora M ^r   Lange, Stephen M ^k   Lanza, Louis ^k   Legrand, Shauna N ^k   Limburg, Paul J ^r   Lingle, Wilma L ^r   Liu, Wanguo ^r   Locke, G Richard ^r   Loeb, David S ^k   Lutzke, Lori S ^r   Martenson, James A ^r   McWilliams, Robert R ^r   Miller, Robert C ^r   Murray, Joseph A ^r   Nguyen, Cuong C ^k   Nichols, Francis C ^r   Odell, John A ^k   Pannala, Rahul ^k   Paripati, Harshita R ^r   Parker, Alexander S ^k   Pasha, Shabana F ^r   Petersen, Bret T ^r   Petersen, Gloria M ^r   Picco, Michael F ^k   Pitot, Henry C ^r   Quevedo, J Fernando ^r   Raimondo, Massimo ^k   Rajan, Elizabeth ^r   Ramirez, Francisco Pancho C ^r   Root, Renee M ^r   Ross, Helen J ^k   Rubin, Joseph ^r   Sanderson, Schuyler O ^r   Sargent, Daniel J ^r   Schaid, Daniel J ^r   Shen, K Robert ^r   Shi, Qian ^r   Sinicrope, Frank A ^r   Sloan, Jeff A ^r   Smith, Dan C ^k   Smith, David I ^r   Smyrk, Thomas C ^r   Stark, Mark E ^k   Talley, Nicholas ^r   Thibodeau, Stephen N ^r   Van Norstrand, Michael D ^r   Wallace, Michael B ^k   Wang, Kenneth K ^r   Weinshilboum, Richard M ^r   Wigle, Dennis ^r   Wolfsen, Herbert C ^k   Song, Louis M Wong Kee ^r   Woodward, Timothy A ^k   Wu, Tsung The ^r   Yoon, Harry H ^r   Zinsmeister, Alan R ^r   more..

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^k MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^l NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^p KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^q UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^r MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACID SUPPRESSANT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BODY MASS; CANCER RISK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COMPLICATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BODY MASS INDEX; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84986910367     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/dju252     Document Type: Article

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