Genetically Predicted Body Mass Index and Breast Cancer Risk: Mendelian Randomization Analyses of Data from 145,000 Women of European Descent

• Main Authors: Guo Y., Warren Andersen S., Shu X.-O., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Garcia-Closas M., Milne R.L., Schmidt M.K., Chang-Claude J., Dunning A., Whittemore A.S., Winqvist R., Zhao H., Zhao S., Hall P., Simard J., Kraft P., Pharoah P., Hunter D., Easton D.F., Bojesen S.E., Zheng W., Ahsan H., Aittomäki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Beckmann M.W., Beeghly-Fadiel A., Benitez J., Bogdanova N.V., Bonanni B., Børresen-Dale A.-L., Brand J., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brüning T., Burwinkel B., Casey G., Chenevix-Trench G., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Devilee P., Dörk T., Dumont M., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flesch-Janys D., Fletcher O., Flyger H., Fostira F., Gammon M., Giles G.G., Guénel P., Haiman C.A., Hamann U., Hooning M.J., Hopper J.L., Jakubowska A., Jasmine F., Jenkins M., John E.M., Johnson N., Jones M.E., Kabisch M., Kibriya M., Knight J.A., Koppert L.B., Kosma V.-M., Kristensen V., Le Marchand L., Lee E., Li J., Lindblom A., Luben R., Lubinski J., Malone K.E., Mannermaa A., Margolin S., Marme F., McLean C., Meijers-Heijboer H., Meindl A., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Neven P., Olson J.E., Perez J.I.A., Perkins B., Peterlongo P., Phillips K.-A., Pylkäs K., Rudolph A., Santella R., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Seynaeve C., Shah M., Shrubsole M.J., Southey M.C., Swerdlow A.J., Toland A.E., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Truong T., Ursin G., Van Der Luijt R.B., Verhoef S.
• Other Authors: SURGERY
• Format: Article
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: adult; aged; Article; body mass; breast cancer; disease association; environmental factor; female; gene frequency; genetic heterogeneity; genotyping technique; human; logistic regression analysis; major clinical study; Mendelian randomization analysis; middle aged; premenopause; single nucleotide polymorphism; weight change; young adult; Breast Neoplasms; Caucasian; genetic predisposition; genetics; menopause; risk factor; statistical model; statistics and numerical data; Body Mass Index; European Continental Ancestry Group; Female; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Humans; Mendelian Randomization Analysis; Menopause; Middle Aged; Models, Statistical; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Risk Factors
• Online Access: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/161909
• Institution: National University of Singapore

10.1371/journal.pmed.1002105