• Circulating free testosterone and risk of aggressive prostate cancer: Prospective and Mendelian randomisation analyses in international consortia 

      Watts, Eleanor L.; Perez-Cornago, Aurora; Fensom, Georgina K.; Smith-Byrne, Karl; Noor, Urwah; Andrews, Colm D.; Gunter, Marc J.; Holmes, Michael V.; Martin, Richard M.; Tsilidis, Konstantinos K.; Albanes, Demetrius; Barricarte, Aurelio; Bueno-de-Mesquita, Bas; Chen, Chu; Cohn, Barbara A.; Dimou, Niki L.; Ferrucci, Luigi; Flicker, Leon; Freedman, Neal D.; Giles, Graham G.; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Goodman, Gary E.; Haiman, Christopher A.; Hankey, Graeme J.; Huang, Jiaqi; Huang, Wen-Yi; Hurwitz, Lauren M.; Kaaks, Rudolf; Knekt, Paul; Kubo, Tatsuhiko; Langseth, Hilde; Laughlin, Gail; Le Marchand, Loic; Luostarinen, Tapio; MacInnis, Robert J.; Mäenpää, Hanna O.; Männistö, Satu; Metter, E. Jeffrey; Mikami, Kazuya; Mucci, Lorelei A.; Olsen, Anja; Ozasa, Kotaro; Palli, Domenico; Penney, Kathryn L.; Platz, Elizabeth A.; Rissanen, Harri; Sawada, Norie; Schenk, Jeannette M.; Stattin, Pär; Tamakoshi, Akiko; Thysell, Elin; Tsai, Chiaojung Jillian; Tsugane, Shoichiro; Vatten, Lars Johan; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Wilkens, Lynne R.; Yeap, Bu B.; Allen, Naomi E.; Key, Timothy J.; Travis, Ruth C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Previous studies had limited power to assess the associations of testosterone with aggressive disease as a primary endpoint. Further, the association of genetically predicted testosterone with aggressive disease is not ...
    • Circulating inflammatory cytokines and risk of five cancers: a Mendelian randomization analysis 

      Bouras, Emmanouil; Karhunen, Ville; Gill, Dipender; Huang, Jian; Haycock, Philip C.; Gunter, Marc J.; Johansson, Mattias; Brennan, Paul; Key, Tim; Lewis, Sarah J.; Martin, Richard M.; Murphy, Neil; Platz, Elizabeth A.; Travis, Ruth; Yarmolinsky, James; Zuber, Verena; Martin, Paul; Katsoulis, Michail; Freisling, Heinz; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Schulze, Matthias B.; Dossus, Laure; Hung, Rayjean J.; Amos, Christopher I.; Ahola-Olli, Ari; Palaniswamy, Saranya; Männikkö, Minna; Auvinen, Juha; Herzig, Karl-Heinz; Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka; Lehtimäki, Terho; Salomaa, Veikko; Raitakari, Olli; Salmi, Marko; Jalkanen, Sirpa; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Dehghan, Abbas; Tsilidis, Konstantinos K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background Epidemiological and experimental evidence has linked chronic inflammation to cancer aetiology. It is unclear whether associations for specific inflammatory biomarkers are causal or due to bias. In order to ...
    • Investigating causal relations between sleep traits and risk of breast cancer in women: Mendelian randomisation study 

      Richmond, Rebecca C.; Anderson, Emma L.; Dashti, Hassan S.; Jones, Samuel E.; Lane, Jacqueline M.; Strand, Linn B; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Rutter, Martin K.; Wood, Andrew R.; Straif, Kurt; Relton, Caroline L.; Munafò, Marcus; Frayling, Timothy M.; Martin, Richard M.; Saxena, Richa; Weedon, Michael N.; Lawlor, Debbie A.; Smith, George Davey (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Objective To examine whether sleep traits have a causal effect on risk of breast cancer. Design Mendelian randomisation study. Setting UK Biobank prospective cohort study and Breast Cancer Association Consortium ...
    • The influence of obesity-related factors in the etiology of renal cell carcinoma-A mendelian randomization study 

      Johansson, Mattias; Carreras-Torres, Robert; Scelo, Ghislaine; Purdue, Mark P.; Mariosa, Daniela; Muller, David C.; Timpson, Nicholas J.; Haycock, Philip C.; Brown, Kevin M.; Wang, Zhaoming; Ye, Yuanqing; Hofmann, Jonathan N.; Foll, Matthieu; Gaborieau, Valerie; Machiela, Mitchell J.; Colli, Leandro M.; Li, Peng; Garnier, Jean-Guillaume; Blanche, Helene; Boland, Anne; Burdette, Laurie; Prokhortchouk, Egor; Skryabin, Konstantin G.; Yeager, Meredith; Radojevic-Skodric, Sanja; Ognjanovic, Simona; Foretova, Lenka; Holcatova, Ivana; Janout, Vladimir; Mates, Dana; Mukeriya, Anush; Rascu, Stefan; Zaridze, David; Bencko, Vladimir; Cybulski, Cezary; Fabianova, Eleonora; Jinga, Viorel; Lissowska, Jolanta; Lubinski, Jan; Navratilova, Marie; Rudnai, Peter; Benhamou, Simone; Cancel-Tassin, Geraldine; Cussenot, Olivier; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Ljungberg, Börje; Tumkur Sitaram, Raviprakash; Häggström, Christel; Bruinsma, Fiona; Jordan, Susan J.; Severi, Gianluca; Winship, Ingrid; Hveem, Kristian; Vatten, Lars Johan; Fletcher, Tony; Larsson, Susanna C.; Wolk, Alicja; Banks, Rosamonde E.; Selby, Peter J.; Easton, Douglas F.; Andreotti, Gabriella; Beane Freeman, Laura E.; Koutros, Stella; Männistö, Satu; Weinstein, Stephanie; Clark, Peter E.; Edwards, Todd L.; Lipworth, Loren; Gapstur, Susan M.; Stevens, Victoria L.; Carol, Hallie; Freedman, Matthew L.; Pomerantz, Mark M.; Cho, Eunyoung; Wilson, Kathryn M.; Gaziano, J. Michael; Sesso, Howard D.; Freedman, Neal D.; Parker, Alexander S.; Eckel-Passow, Jeanette E.; Huang, Wen-Yi; Kahnoski, Richard J.; Lane, Brian R.; Noyes, Sabrina L.; Petillo, David; Teh, Bin Tean; Peters, Ulrike; White, Emily; Anderson, Garnet L.; Johnson, Lisa; Luo, Juhua; Buring, Julie; Lee, I-Min; Chow, Wong-Ho; Moore, Lee E.; Eisen, Timothy; Henrion, Marc; Larkin, James; Barman, Poulami; Leibovich, Bradley C.; Choueiri, Toni K.; Lathrop, G. Mark; Deleuze, Jean-François; Gunter, Marc; McKay, James D.; Wu, Xifeng; Houlston, Richard S.; Chanock, Stephen J.; Relton, Caroline; Richards, J. Brent; Martin, Richard M.; Davey Smith, George; Brennan, Paul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Background Several obesity-related factors have been associated with renal cell carcinoma (RCC), but it is unclear which individual factors directly influence risk. We addressed this question using genetic markers as ...
    • Varenicline versus nicotine replacement therapy for long-term smoking cessation: an observational study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink 

      Davies, Neil Martin; Taylor, Amy E.; Taylor, Gemma M.J.; Itani, Taha; Jones, Tim; Martin, Richard M.; Munafò, Marcus R.; Windmeijer, Frank; Thomas, Kyla H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Background Smoking is the leading avoidable cause of illness and premature mortality. The first-line treatments for smoking cessation are nicotine replacement therapy and varenicline. Meta-analyses of experimental studies ...