• DNA methylation changes measured in pre-diagnostic peripheral blood samples are associated with smoking and lung cancer risk 

      Baglietto, Laura; Ponzi, Erica; Haycock, Philip; Hodge, Allison; Bianca Assumma, Manuela; Jung, Chol-Hee; Chung, Jessica; Fasanelli, Francesca; Guida, Florence; Campanella, Gianluca; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc; Grankvist, Kjell; Johansson, Mikael; Ala, Ugo; Provero, Paolo; Wong, Ee Ming; Joo, Jihoon; English, Dallas R.; Kazmi, Nabila; Lund, Eiliv; Faltus, Christian; Risch, Angela; Barrdahl, Myrto; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Southey, Melissa C.; Giles, Graham G.; Johansson, Mattias; Vineis, Paolo; Polidoro, Silvia; Relton, Caroline L.; Severi, Gianluca (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-09-15)
      DNA methylation changes are associated with cigarette smoking. We used the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 array to determine whether methylation in DNA from pre‐diagnostic, peripheral blood samples is associated with lung cancer risk. We used a case‐control study nested within the EPIC‐Italy cohort and a study within the MCCS cohort as discovery sets (a total of 552 case‐control pairs). We ...
    • Lifetime alcohol intake, drinking patterns over time and risk of stomach cancer: A pooled analysis of data from two prospective cohort studies 

      Jayasekara, Harindra; MacInnis, Robert J.; Lujan-Barroso, Leila; Mayen-Chacon, Ana-Lucia; Cross, Amanda J.; Wallner, Bengt; Palli, Domenico; Ricceri, Fulvio; Pala, Valeria; Panico, Salvatore; Tumino, Rosario; Kühn, Tilman; Kaaks, Rudolf; Tsilidis, Konstantinos K.; Sánchez, Maria-Jose; Amiano, Pilar; Ardanaz, Eva; Chirlaque López, María Dolores; Merino, Susana; Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Severi, Gianluca; Sternby, Hanna; Sonestedt, Emily; Bueno-de-Mesquita, Bas; Boeing, Heiner; Travis, Ruth C.; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Karakatsani, Anna; Peppa, Eleni; Tjønneland, Anne; Yang, Yi; Hodge, Allison M.; Mitchell, Hazel; Haydon, Andrew; Room, R; Hopper, John L.; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Gunter, Marc J.; Riboli, Elio; Giles, Graham G.; Milne, Roger L.; Agudo, Antonio; English, Dallas R.; Ferrari, Pietro (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-07)
      Alcohol consumption is causally linked to several cancers but the evidence for stomach cancer is inconclusive. In our study, the association between long-term alcohol intake and risk of stomach cancer and its subtypes was evaluated. We performed a pooled analysis of data collected at baseline from 491 714 participants in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition and the Melbourne ...
    • Stochastic Epigenetic Mutations Are Associated with Risk of Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, and Mature B-cell Neoplasms 

      Gagliardi, Amedeo; Dugué, Pierre-Antoine; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Southey, Melissa C.; Buchanan, Daniel D.; Schmidt, Daniel F; Makalic, Enes; Hodge, Allison M; English, Dallas R.; Wong Doo, Nicole; Hopper, John L.; Severi, Gianluca; Baglietto, Laura; Naccarati, Alessio; Krogh, Vittorio; Palli, Domenico; Panico, Salvatore; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Tumino, Rosario; Lund, Eiliv; Giles, Graham; Pardini, Barbara; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Milne, Roger L.; Paolo, Vineis; Polidoro, Silvia; Fiorito, Giovanni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-11)
      <p>Background: Age-related epigenetic dysregulations are associated with several diseases, including cancer. The number of stochastic epigenetic mutations (SEM) has been suggested as a biomarker of life-course accumulation of exposure-related DNA damage; however, the predictive role of SEMs in cancer has seldom been investigated. <p>Methods: A SEM, at a given CpG site, was defined as an extreme ...