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Adult height is associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer: a Mendelian randomisation study

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Cancer, March 2018
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Title
Adult height is associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer: a Mendelian randomisation study
Published in
British Journal of Cancer, March 2018
DOI 10.1038/s41416-018-0011-3
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Suzanne C. Dixon-Suen, Christina M. Nagle, Aaron P. Thrift, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Ailith Ewing, Celeste Leigh Pearce, Wei Zheng, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Peter A. Fasching, Matthias W. Beckmann, Diether Lambrechts, Ignace Vergote, Sandrina Lambrechts, Els Van Nieuwenhuysen, Mary Anne Rossing, Jennifer A. Doherty, Kristine G. Wicklund, Jenny Chang-Claude, Audrey Y. Jung, Kirsten B. Moysich, Kunle Odunsi, Marc T. Goodman, Lynne R. Wilkens, Pamela J. Thompson, Yurii B. Shvetsov, Thilo Dörk, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Peter Hillemanns, Natalia Bogdanova, Ralf Butzow, Heli Nevanlinna, Liisa M. Pelttari, Arto Leminen, Francesmary Modugno, Roberta B. Ness, Robert P. Edwards, Joseph L. Kelley, Florian Heitz, Andreas du Bois, Philipp Harter, Ira Schwaab, Beth Y. Karlan, Jenny Lester, Sandra Orsulic, Bobbie J. Rimel, Susanne K. Kjær, Estrid Høgdall, Allan Jensen, Ellen L. Goode, Brooke L. Fridley, Julie M. Cunningham, Stacey J. Winham, Graham G. Giles, Fiona Bruinsma, Roger L. Milne, Melissa C. Southey, Michelle A. T. Hildebrandt, Xifeng Wu, Karen H. Lu, Dong Liang, Douglas A. Levine, Maria Bisogna, Joellen M. Schildkraut, Andrew Berchuck, Daniel W. Cramer, Kathryn L. Terry, Elisa V. Bandera, Sara H. Olson, Helga B. Salvesen, Liv Cecilie Vestrheim Thomsen, Reidun K. Kopperud, Line Bjorge, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Leon F. A. G. Massuger, Tanja Pejovic, Amanda Bruegl, Linda S. Cook, Nhu D. Le, Kenneth D. Swenerton, Angela Brooks-Wilson, Linda E. Kelemen, Jan Lubiński, Tomasz Huzarski, Jacek Gronwald, Janusz Menkiszak, Nicolas Wentzensen, Louise Brinton, Hannah Yang, Jolanta Lissowska, Claus K. Høgdall, Lene Lundvall, Honglin Song, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Ian Campbell, Diana Eccles, James Paul, Rosalind Glasspool, Nadeem Siddiqui, Alice S. Whittemore, Weiva Sieh, Valerie McGuire, Joseph H. Rothstein, Steven A. Narod, Catherine Phelan, Harvey A. Risch, John R. McLaughlin, Hoda Anton-Culver, Argyrios Ziogas, Usha Menon, Simon A. Gayther, Susan J. Ramus, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Anna H. Wu, Malcolm C. Pike, Chiu-Chen Tseng, Jolanta Kupryjanczyk, Agnieszka Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Agnieszka Budzilowska, Iwona K. Rzepecka, Penelope M. Webb, on behalf of the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium

Abstract

Observational studies suggest greater height is associated with increased ovarian cancer risk, but cannot exclude bias and/or confounding as explanations for this. Mendelian randomisation (MR) can provide evidence which may be less prone to bias. We pooled data from 39 Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium studies (16,395 cases; 23,003 controls). We applied two-stage predictor-substitution MR, using a weighted genetic risk score combining 609 single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Study-specific odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the association between genetically predicted height and risk were pooled using random-effects meta-analysis. Greater genetically predicted height was associated with increased ovarian cancer risk overall (pooled-OR (pOR) = 1.06; 95% CI: 1.01-1.11 per 5 cm increase in height), and separately for invasive (pOR = 1.06; 95% CI: 1.01-1.11) and borderline (pOR = 1.15; 95% CI: 1.02-1.29) tumours. Women with a genetic propensity to being taller have increased risk of ovarian cancer. This suggests genes influencing height are involved in pathways promoting ovarian carcinogenesis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 61 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 13%
Student > Master 6 10%
Researcher 6 10%
Other 4 7%
Professor 4 7%
Other 10 16%
Unknown 23 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 25%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 7%
Unspecified 2 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 3%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 26 43%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 June 2019.
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