Mendelian Randomization and mediation analysis of leukocyte telomere length and risk of lung and head and neck cancers
Abstract
Evidence from observational studies of telomere length (TL) has been conflicting regarding its direction of association with cancer risk. We investigated the causal relevance of TL for lung and head and neck cancers using Mendelian Randomization (MR) and mediation analyses.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jul 28, 2018
- Source ID
- 10.1093/ije/dyy140
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- Aage Haugen
- Adonina Tardón
- Andrew F. Olshan
- Andrew R Ness
- Angela Risch
- Angeline S. Andrew
- Antonia Trichopoulou
- Anush Mukeriya
- Beata Swiatkowska
- Brenda Diergaarde
- Christopher I Amos
- Chu Chen
- Corina Lesseur
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- Demetrius Albanes
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- Geoffrey Liu
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- Jennifer A Doherty
- John K. Field
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- Kim Overvad
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- Linda Kachuri
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