• Assessing the role of genome-wide DNA methylation between smoking and risk of lung cancer using repeated measurements: the HUNT Study 

      Sun, Yi-Qian; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Suderman, Matthew; Min, Josine L; Battram, Thomas; Flatberg, Arnar; Beisvag, Vidar; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Guida, Florence; Jiang, Lin; Wahl, Sissel Gyrid Freim; Langhammer, Arnulf; Skorpen, Frank; Walker, Rosie M; Bretherick, Andrew D; Zeng, Yanni; Chen, Yue; Johansson, Mattias; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Relton, Caroline L; Mai, Xiao-Mei (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background: It is unclear if smoking-related DNA methylation represents a causal pathway between smoking and risk of lung cancer. We sought to identify novel smoking-related DNA methylation sites in blood, with repeated ...
    • Associations of gene expression in blood with BMI and weight changes among women in the Norwegian Women and Cancer postgenome cohort 

      Baiju, Nikita; Rylander, Karin Charlotta Maria; Sætrom, Pål; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Objective This study aimed to evaluate associations between blood gene expression profiles and (1) current BMI and (2) past weight changes (WCs) among women who had never been diagnosed with cancer in the Norwegian Women ...
    • The blood metabolome of incident kidney cancer: A case-control study nested within the MetKid consortium 

      Guida, Florence; Tan, VY; Smith-Byrne, K; Alcala, Karine; Langenberg, C; Butterworth, AS; Surendran, P; Achaintre, David; Adamski, P; Bergmann, MM; Bull, CJ; Dahm, CC; Gicquiau, Audrey; Giles, GG; Gunter, MJ; Haller, T; Langhammer, Arnulf; Larose, TL; Ljungberd, B; Metspalu, A; Milne, RL; Muller, DC; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Sørgjerd, Elin Pettersen; Prehn, C; Riboli, E; Rinaldi, S; Rothwell, JA; Scalbert, A.; Severi, G; Sieri, S; Vermeulen, R; Vincent, EE; Waldenberger, M; Timpson, NJ; Johansson, M (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    • Cigarette Smoking and Endometrial Cancer Risk: Observational and Mendelian Randomization Analyses 

      Dimou, Niki; Omiyale, Wemimo; Biessy, Carine; Viallon, Vivian; Kaaks, Rudolf; O'Mara, Tracy A.; Aglago, Elom K.; Ardanaz, Eva; Bergmann, Manuela M.; Bondonno, Nicola P.; Braaten, Tonje; Colorado-Yohar, Sandra M.; Crous-Bou, Marta; Dahm, Christina C.; Fortner, Renée T.; Gram, Inger Torhild; Harlid, Sophia; Heath, Alicia K.; Idahl, Annika; Kvaskoff, Marina; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Overvad, Kim; Palli, Domenico; Perez-Cornago, Aurora; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Sánchez, Maria-Jose; Schulze, Matthias B.; Severi, Gianluca; Simeon, Vittorio; Tagliabue, Giovanna; Tjønneland, Anne; Truong, Thérése; Tumino, Rosario; Johansson, Mattias; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Murphy, Neil; Gunter, Marc J.; Lacey, Ben; Allen, Naomi E.; Dossus, Laure (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: Current epidemiologic evidence indicates that smoking is associated with a lower endometrial cancer risk. However, it is unknown if this association is causal or confounded. To further elucidate the role of ...
    • 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 ...
    • Combined Lifestyle Behaviors and the Incidence of Common Cancer Types in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC) 

      Chen, Sairah Lai Fa; Braaten, Tonje Bjørndal; Borch, Kristin Benjaminsen; Ferrari, Pietro; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Introduction: Only a small number of studies have examined the impact of combined lifestyle behaviors on cancer incidence, and never in a Norwegian population. Purpose: To examine linear and nonlinear associations of ...
    • Cross-Ancestry Investigation of Venous Thromboembolism Genomic Predictors 

      Thibord, Florian; Klarin, Derek; Brody, Jennifer A.; Chen, Ming-Huei; Levin, Michael G.; Chasman, Daniel I.; Goode, Ellen L.; Hveem, Kristian; Teder-Laving, Maris; Martinez-Perez, Angel; Aïssi, Dylan; Daian-Bacq, Delphine; Ito, Kaoru; Natarajan, Pradeep; Lutsey, Pamela L.; Nadkarni, Girish N.; de Vries, Paul S.; Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel; Wolford, Brooke N.; Pattee, Jack W.; Kooperberg, Charles; Brækkan, Sigrid Kufaas; Li-Gao, Ruifang; Saut, Noemie; Sept, Corriene; Germain, Marine; Judy, Renae L.; Wiggins, Kerri L.; Ko, Darae; O'Donnell, Christopher J.; Taylor, Kent D.; Giulianini, Franco; De Andrade, Mariza; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Boland, Anne; Empana, Jean-Philippe; Koyama, Satoshi; Gilliland, Thomas; Do, Ron; Huffman, Jennifer E.; Wang, Xin; Zhou, Wei; Manuel Soria, Jose; Carlos Souto, Juan; Pankratz, Nathan; Haessler, Jeffery; Hindberg, Kristian Dalsbø; Rosendaal, Frits R; Turman, Constance; Olaso, Robert; Kember, Rachel L.; Bartz, Traci M.; Lynch, Julie A.; Heckbert, Susan R.; Armasu, Sebastian M.; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Smadja, David M.; Jouven, Xavier; Komuro, Issei; Clapham, Katharine R.; Loos, Ruth J F; Willer, Cristen J.; Sabater-Lleal, Maria; Pankow, James S.; Reiner, Alexander P.; Morelli, Vania Maris; Ridker, Paul M.; Vlieg, Astrid van Hylckama; Deleuze, Jean-François; Kraft, Peter; Rader, Daniel J.; Psaty, Bruce M.; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Emmerich, Joseph; Suchon, Pierre; Rich, Stephen S.; Vy, Ha My T; Tang, Weihong; Jackson, Rebecca D.; Hansen, John Bjarne; Morange, Pierre-Emmanuel; Kabrhel, Christopher; Trégouët, David-Alexandre; Damrauer, Scott M.; Johnson, Andrew D.; Smith, Nicholas L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a life-threatening vascular event with environmental and genetic determinants. Recent VTE genome-wide association studies (GWAS) meta-analyses involved nearly 30 000 VTE cases ...
    • Dietary amino acids and risk of stroke subtypes: a prospective analysis of 356,000 participants in seven European countries 

      Tong, Tammy Y. N.; Clarke, Robert Michael; Schmidt, Julie A.; Huybrechts, Inge; Noor, Urwah; Forouhi, Nita G.; Imamura, Fumiaki; Travis, Ruth C.; Weiderpass Vainio, Elisabete; Aleksandrova, Krasimira; Dahm, Christina C.; van der Schouw, Yvonne T.; Overvad, Kim; Kyrø, Cecilie; Tjønneland, Anne; Kaaks, Rudolf; Katzke, Verena; Schiborn, Catarina; Schulze, Matthias B.; Mayen-Chacon, Ana-Lucia; Masala, Giovanna; Sieri, Sabina; de Magistris, Maria Santucci; Tumino, Rosario; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Boer, Jolanda M. A.; Verschuren, W. M. Monique; Brustad, Magritt; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Crous-Bou, Marta; Petrova, Dafina; Amiano, Pilar; Huerta, José María; Moreno-Iribas, Conchi; Engström, Gunnar; Melander, Olle; Johansson, Kristina; Lindvall, Kristina; Aglago, Elom K.; Heath, Alicia K.; Butterworth, Adam S.; Danesh, John; Key, Timothy J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Purpose Previously reported associations of protein-rich foods with stroke subtypes have prompted interest in the assessment of individual amino acids. We examined the associations of dietary amino acids with risks of ...
    • Epigenetic mechanisms of lung carcinogenesis involve differentially methylated CpG sites beyond those associated with smoking 

      Petrovic, Dusan; Bodinier, Barbara; Dagnino, Sonia; Whitaker, Matthew; Karimi, Maryam; Campanella, Gianluca; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Polidoro, Silvia; Palli, Domenico; Krogh, Vittorio; Tumino, Rosario; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Panico, Salvatore; Lund, Eiliv; Dugué, Pierre-Antoine; Giles, Graham G; Severi, Gianluca; Southey, Melissa; Vineis, Paolo; Stringhini, Silvia; Bochud, Murielle; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Vermeulen, Roel CH; Guida, Florence; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Smoking-related epigenetic changes have been linked to lung cancer, but the contribution of epigenetic alterations unrelated to smoking remains unclear. We sought for a sparse set of CpG sites predicting lung cancer and ...
    • Gene expression in blood reflects smoking exposure among cancer-free women in the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) postgenome cohort 

      Baiju, Nikita; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Sætrom, Pål; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Active smoking has been linked to modulated gene expression in blood. However, there is a need for a more thorough understanding of how quantitative measures of smoking exposure relate to differentially expressed genes ...
    • Increased expression of individual genes in whole blood is associated with late-stage lung cancer at and close to diagnosis 

      Urbarova, Ilona Halva; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Sun, Yi-Qian; Mai, Xiao-Mei; Grønberg, Bjørn Henning; Sandanger, Torkjel Manning; Sætrom, Pål; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Lung cancer (LC) mortality rates are still increasing globally. As survival is linked to stage, there is a need to identify markers for earlier LC diagnosis and individualized treatment. The whole blood transcriptome of ...
    • Increased levels of microRNA-320 in blood serum and plasma is associated with imminent and advanced lung cancer 

      Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Urbarova, Ilona Halva; Mjelle, Robin; Paulsen, Erna-Elise; Dønnem, Tom; Andersen, Sigve; Markaki, Maria; Røe, Oluf Dimitri; Johansson, Mikael; Johansson, Mattias; Grønberg, Bjørn Henning; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Sætrom, Pål (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Lung cancer (LC) incidence is increasing globally and altered levels of microRNAs (miRNAs) in blood may contribute to identification of individuals with LC. We identified miRNAs differentially expressed in peripheral blood ...
    • Increased levels of microRNA-320 in blood serum and plasma is associated with imminent and advanced lung cancer 

      Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Urbarova, Ilona Halva; Mjelle, Robin; Paulsen, Erna-Elise; Dønnem, Tom; Andersen, Sigve; Markaki, Maria; Røe, Oluf Dimitri; Johansson, Mikael; Johansson, Mattias; Grønberg, Bjørn Henning; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Sætrom, Pål (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Lung cancer (LC) incidence is increasing globally and altered levels of microRNAs (miRNAs) in blood may contribute to identification of individuals with LC. We identified miRNAs differentially expressed in peripheral blood ...
    • Lung cancer risk discrimination of prediagnostic proteomics measurements compared with existing prediction tools 

      Feng, Xiaoshuang; Wu, Wendy Yi-Ying; Onwuka, Justina Ucheojor; Haider, Zahra; Alcala, Karine; Smith-Byrne, Karl; Zahed, Hana; Guida, Florence; Wang, Renwei; Bassett, Julie K.; Stevens, Victoria; Wang, Ying; Weinstein, Stephanie; Freedman, Neal D.; Chen, Chu; Tinker, Lesley; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Koh, Woon-Puay; Muller, David; Colorado-Yohar, Sandra M.; Tumino, Rosario; Hung, Rayjean J.; Amos, Christopher I.; Lin, Xihong; Zhang, Xuehong; Arslan, Alan A.; Sánchez, Maria-Jose; Sørgjerd, Elin Pettersen; Severi, Gianluca; Hveem, Kristian; Brennan, Paul; Langhammer, Arnulf; Milne, Roger L.; Yuan, Jian-Min; Melin, Beatrice; Johansson, Mikael; Robbins, Hilary A.; Johansson, Mattias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background We sought to develop a proteomics-based risk model for lung cancer and evaluate its risk-discriminatory performance in comparison with a smoking-based risk model (PLCOm2012) and a commercially available ...
    • Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model 

      Krogseth, Ingjerd Sunde; Breivik, Knut; Frantzen, Sylvia; Nilsen, Bente Merete; Eckhardt, Sabine; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Wania, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      There is concern over possible effects on ecosystems and humans from exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and chemicals with similar properties. The main objective of this study was to develop, evaluate, and ...
    • Plasma concentrations of persistent organic pollutants and pancreatic cancer risk 

      Porta, Miquel; Gasull, Magda; Pumarega, José; Kiviranta, Hannu; Rantakokko, Panu; Raaschou-Nielsen, Ole; Bergdahl, Ingvar A.; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Agudo, Antoni; Rylander, Charlotta; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Donat-Vargas, Carolina; Aune, Dagfinn; Heath, Alicia K; Cirera, Lluís; Goni-Irigoyen, Fernando; Alguacil, Juan; Giménez-Robert, Álex; Tjønneland, Anne; Sund, Malin; Overvad, Kim; Romana Mancini, Francesca; Rebours, Vinciane; Boutron-Ruault, Marie Christine; Kaaks, Rudolf; Schulze, Matthias B.; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Palli, Domenico; Grioni, Sara; Tumino, Rosario; Naccarati, Alessio; Panico, Salvatore; Vermeulen, Roel; Ramón Quirós, J; Rodríguez-Barranco, Miguel; Colorado-Yohar, Sandra M.; Chirlaque, María Dolores; Ardanaz, Eva; Wareham, Nick; Key, Tim; Johansson, Mattias; Murphy, Neil; Ferrari, Pietro; Huybrechts, Inge; Chajes, Veronique; Gonzalez, Carlos Alberto; de Mesquita, Bas Bueno; Gunter, Marc; Vainio, Elisabete Weiderpass; Riboli, Elio; Duell, Eric J; Katzke, Verena; Vineis, Paolo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background Findings and limitations of previous studies on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and pancreatic cancer risk support conducting further research in prospective cohorts. Methods We conducted a prospective ...
    • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in type 2 diabetes mellitus cases and controls: Repeated measurements prior to and after diagnosis 

      Charles, Dolley; Berg, Vivian; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Wilsgaard, Tom; Bergdahl, Ingvar A.; Huber, Sandra; Ayotte, Pierre; Averina, Maria; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Rylander, Karin Charlotta Maria (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background Previous studies have reported associations between certain persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a class of POPs that are found ...
    • A practical checklist for return of results from genomic research in the European contex 

      Vears, Danya F.; Hallowell, Nina; Bentzen, Heidi Beate; Ellul, Bridget; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Kerasidou, Angeliki; Kerr, Shona M.; Mayrhofer, Michaela Th.; Mežinska, Signe; Ormondroyd, Elizabeth; Solberg, Berge; Sand, Birgitte Wirum; Ljøsne, Isabelle Sylvie Budin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      An increasing number of European research projects return, or plan to return, individual genomic research results (IRR) to participants. While data access is a data subject’s right under the General Data Protection Regulation ...
    • Pre-diagnostic DNA methylation in blood leucocytes in cutaneous melanoma; a nested case–control study within the Norwegian Women and Cancer cohort 

      Page, Christian Magnus; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Djordjilović, Vera; Thoresen, Magne; Frigessi, Arnoldo; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Veierød, Marit Bragelien (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    • Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization in global biobank meta-analysis reveals multi-ancestry drug targets for common diseases 

      Zhao, Huiling; Rasheed, Humaria; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Cho, Yoonsu; Liu, Yi; Bhatta, Laxmi; Bhattacharya, Arjun; Hemani, Gibran; Davey Smith, George; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Zhou, Wei; Neale, Benjamin M.; Gaunt, Tom R.; Zheng, Jie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization (MR) shows value in prioritizing drug targets in Europeans but with limited evidence in other ancestries. Here, we present a multi-ancestry proteome-wide MR analysis based on ...