Genetically Predicted Body Mass Index and Breast Cancer Risk: Mendelian Randomization Analyses of Data from 145,000 Women of European Descent

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Guo, Yan ^a   Warren Andersen, Shaneda ^b   Shu, Xiao Ou ^b   Michailidou, Kyriaki ^c   Bolla, Manjeet K ^c   Wang, Qin ^c   Garcia Closas, Montserrat ^d   Milne, Roger L ^e,f   Schmidt, Marjanka K ^g   Chang Claude, Jenny ^h,i   Dunning, Allison ^j   Bojesen, Stig E ^k,l   Ahsan, Habibul ^m   Aittomäki, Kristiina ⁿ   Andrulis, Irene L ^o,p   Anton Culver, Hoda ^q   Arndt, Volker ^h   Beckmann, Matthias W ^m   Beeghly Fadiel, Alicia ^b   Benitez, Javier ^r,s   Bogdanova, Natalia V ^t   Bonanni, Bernardo ^u   Børresen Dale, Anne Lise ^v,w   Brand, Judith ^x   Brauch, Hiltrud ^h,y,z   Brenner, Hermann ^h   Brüning, Thomas ^aa   Burwinkel, Barbara ^h   Casey, Graham ^ab   Chenevix Trench, Georgia ^ac   Couch, Fergus J ^ad   Cox, Angela ^j   Cross, Simon S ^j   Czene, Kamila ^x   Devilee, Peter ^ae   Dörk, Thilo ^t   Dumont, Martine ^af   Fasching, Peter A ^ag,ah   Figueroa, Jonine ^ai   Flesch Janys, Dieter ^aj   Fletcher, Olivia ^d   Flyger, Henrik ^l   Fostira, Florentia ^ak   Gammon, Marilie ^al   Giles, Graham G ^e,f   Guénel, Pascal ^am,an   Haiman, Christopher A ^ab   Hamann, Ute ^h   Hooning, Maartje J ^ao   Hopper, John L ^f   Jakubowska, Anna ^ap   Jasmine, Farzana ^m   Jenkins, Mark ^f   John, Esther M ^aq,ar   Johnson, Nichola ^d   Jones, Michael E ^d   Kabisch, Maria ^h   Kibriya, Muhammad ^m   Knight, Julia A ^o,p   Koppert, Linetta B ^ao   Kosma, Veli Matti ^as,at   Kristensen, Vessela ^v,w,au   Le Marchand, Loic ^av   Lee, Eunjung ^ab   Li, Jingmei ^x   Lindblom, Annika ^x   Luben, Robert ^c   Lubinski, Jan ^ap   Malone, Kathi E ^aw   Mannermaa, Arto ^as,at   Margolin, Sara ^x   Marme, Frederik ^ax   McLean, Catriona ^ay   Meijers Heijboer, Hanne ^az   Meindl, Alfons ^ba   Neuhausen, Susan L ^bb   Nevanlinna, Heli ⁿ   Neven, Patrick ^bc   Olson, Janet E ^ad   Perez, Jose I A ^bd   Perkins, Barbara ^c   Peterlongo, Paolo ^be   Phillips, Kelly Anne ^f   Pylkäs, Katri ^bf   Rudolph, Anja ^h   Santella, Regina ^bg,bh   Sawyer, Elinor J ^bi   Schmutzler, Rita K ^bj   Seynaeve, Caroline ^ao   Shah, Mitul ^c   Shrubsole, Martha J ^b   Southey, Melissa C ^f   Swerdlow, Anthony J ^d   Toland, Amanda E ^bk   Tomlinson, Ian ^bl   Torres, Diana ^h   Truong, Thérèse ^am,an   Ursin, Giske ^bm   Van Der Luijt, Rob B ^bn   Verhoef, Senno ^g   Whittemore, Alice S ^ar   Winqvist, Robert ^bf,bo   Zhao, Hui ^bp,bq   Zhao, Shilin ^a   Hall, Per ^x   Simard, Jacques ^af   Kraft, Peter ^br   Pharoah, Paul ^c   Hunter, David ^br   Easton, Douglas F ^c   Zheng, Wei ^b   more..

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^h GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^l GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁿ HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^o MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^p UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^r Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

^s Centro de Investigacin Biomdica en Red de Enfermedades Raras   (Spain)

^t HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^u EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^v OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^w UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^x KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^y DR MARGARETE FISCHER BOSCH INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY   (Germany)

^z UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^aa RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ac QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^ad MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^ae LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^af LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^ag UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ai NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^aj UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^ak INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^al IL   (United States)

^am CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^an UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^ao ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^ap POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^aq CANCER PREVENTION INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ar STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^as KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^at UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^au OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^av UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^aw Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^ax UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^ay ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^az VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^ba TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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

^bc UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^bd HOSPITAL MONTE NARANCO   (Spain)

^be FIRC INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^bf UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^bg NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^bh Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^bi GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^bj UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^bk OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^bl UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^bm UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^bn UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^bo Northern Finland Laboratory Centre NordLab Oulu   (Finland)

^bp Vesalius Research Center   (Belgium)

^bq UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^br HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PREMENOPAUSE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WEIGHT CHANGE; YOUNG ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUCASIAN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MENOPAUSE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84988940556     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002105     Document Type: Article

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