Circulating bilirubin levels and risk of colorectal cancer: serological and Mendelian randomization analyses

Abstract Background Bilirubin, a byproduct of hemoglobin breakdown and purported anti-oxidant, is thought to be cancer preventive. We conducted complementary serological and Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses to investigate whether alterations in circulating levels of bilirubin are associated wit...

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Main Authors: Nazlisadat Seyed Khoei, Mazda Jenab, Neil Murphy, Barbara L. Banbury, Robert Carreras-Torres, Vivian Viallon, Tilman Kühn, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Krasimira Aleksandrova, Amanda J. Cross, Elisabete Weiderpass, Magdalena Stepien, Andrew Bulmer, Anne Tjønneland, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Gianluca Severi, Franck Carbonnel, Verena Katzke, Heiner Boeing, Manuela M. Bergmann, Antonia Trichopoulou, Anna Karakatsani, Georgia Martimianaki, Domenico Palli, Giovanna Tagliabue, Salvatore Panico, Rosario Tumino, Carlotta Sacerdote, Guri Skeie, Susana Merino, Catalina Bonet, Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco, Leire Gil, Maria-Dolores Chirlaque, Eva Ardanaz, Robin Myte, Johan Hultdin, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Dagfinn Aune, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Demetrius Albanes, John A. Baron, Sonja I. Berndt, Stéphane Bézieau, Hermann Brenner, Peter T. Campbell, Graham Casey, Andrew T. Chan, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Michelle Cotterchio, Steven Gallinger, Stephen B. Gruber, Robert W. Haile, Jochen Hampe, Michael Hoffmeister, John L. Hopper, Li Hsu, Jeroen R. Huyghe, Mark A. Jenkins, Amit D. Joshi, Ellen Kampman, Susanna C. Larsson, Loic Le Marchand, Christopher I. Li, Li Li, Annika Lindblom, Noralane M. Lindor, Vicente Martín, Victor Moreno, Polly A. Newcomb, Kenneth Offit, Shuji Ogino, Patrick S. Parfrey, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Gad Rennert, Lori C. Sakoda, Clemens Schafmayer, Stephanie L. Schmit, Robert E. Schoen, Martha L. Slattery, Stephen N. Thibodeau, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Franzel J. B. van Duijnhoven, Korbinian Weigl, Stephanie J. Weinstein, Emily White, Alicja Wolk, Michael O. Woods, Anna H. Wu, Xuehong Zhang, Pietro Ferrari, Gabriele Anton, Annette Peters, Ulrike Peters, Marc J. Gunter, Karl-Heinz Wagner, Heinz Freisling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:BMC Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-020-01703-w