Body size and composition and risk of site-specific cancers in the UK Biobank and large international consortia: A mAU endelian: PleasenotethatasperP randomisation study

Mathew Vithayathil; Paul Carter; Siddhartha Kar; Amy M Mason; Stephen Burgess; Susanna C Larsson

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003706

Body size and composition and risk of site-specific cancers in the UK Biobank and large international consortia: A mAU endelian: PleasenotethatasperP randomisation study

Mathew Vithayathil
, Paul Carter
, Siddhartha Kar
, Amy M Mason
, Stephen Burgess^*
, Susanna C Larsson

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Evidence for the impact of body size and composition on cancer risk is limited. This mendelian randomisation (MR) study investigates evidence supporting causal relationships of body mass index (BMI), fat mass index (FMI), fat-free mass index (FFMI), and height with cancer risk.

Original language	English
Article number	e1003706
Number of pages	21
Journal	PLOS Medicine
Volume	18
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003706
Publication status	Published - 29 Jul 2021

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