• Appraising the causal relevance of DNA methylation for risk of lung cancer 

      Battram, Thomas; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Baglietto, Laura; Haycock, Philip C.; Perduca, Vittorio; Bojesen, Stig E.; Gaunt, Tom R.; Hemani, Gibran; Guida, Florence; Carreras-Torres, Robert; Hung, Rayjean; Amos, Christopher I.; Freeman, Joshua R.; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Nordestgaard, Børge G.; Teschendorff, Andrew E.; Polidoro, Silvia; Vineis, Paolo; Severi, Gianluca; Hodge, Allison M.; Giles, Graham G; Grankvist, Kjell; Johansson, Mikael B.; Johansson, Mattias; Smith, George Davey; Relton, Caroline L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-24)
      <i>Background</i> - DNA methylation changes in peripheral blood have recently been identified in relation to lung cancer risk. Some of these changes have been suggested to mediate part of the effect of smoking on lung cancer. However, limitations with conventional mediation analyses mean that the causal nature of these methylation changes has yet to be fully elucidated.<p> <p><i>Methods</i> - We ...
    • Circulating Isovalerylcarnitine and Lung Cancer Risk: Evidence from Mendelian Randomization and Prediagnostic Blood Measurements 

      Smith-Byrne, Karl; Cerani, Agustin; Guida, Florence; Zhou, Sirui; Agudo, Antonio; Aleksandrova, Krasimira; Barricarte, Aurelio; Barranco, Miguel Rodríguez; Bochers, Christoph H.; Gram, Inger Torhild; Han, Jun; Amos, Christopher I.; Hung, Rayjean J.; Grankvist, Kjell; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Imaz, Liher; Chirlaque-López, María Dolores; Johansson, Mikael; Kaaks, Rudolf; Kühn, Tilman; Martin, Richard M.; McKay, James D.; Pala, Valeria; Robbins, Hilary A.; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Schibli, David; Schulze, Matthias B.; Travis, Ruth C.; Vineis, Paolo; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Brennan, Paul; Johansson, Mattias; Richards, J Brent (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-04)
      Background: Tobacco exposure causes 8 of 10 lung cancers, and identifying additional risk factors is challenging due to confounding introduced by smoking in traditional observational studies.<p> <p>Materials and Methods: We used Mendelian randomization (MR) to screen 207 metabolites for their role in lung cancer predisposition using independent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of blood ...
    • 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 ...
    • Haem iron intake and risk of lung cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort 

      Ward, Heather A; Whitman, Julia; Muller, David C; Johansson, Mattias; Jakszyn, Paula; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Palli, Domenico; Fanidi, Anouar; Vermeulen, Roel; Tjønneland, Anne; Hansen, Louise; Dahm, Christina C.; Overvad, Kim; Severi, Gianluca; Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Affret, Aurélie; Kaaks, Rudolf; Fortner, Renee; Boeing, Heiner; Trichopoulou, Antonia; La Vecchia, Carlo; Kotanidou, Anastasia; Berrino, Franco; Krogh, Vittorio; Tumino, Rosario; Ricceri, Fulvio; Panico, Salvatore; Bueno-De-Mesquita, Hendrik Bastiaan; Peeters, Petra H; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Quirós, José Ramón; Agudo, Antonio; Rodríguez-Barranco, Miguel; Larrañaga, Nerea; Huerta, Jose Maria; Ardanaz, Eva; Drake, Isabel; Brunnström, Hans; Johansson, Mikael; Grankvist, Kjell; Travis, Ruth C.; Freisling, Heinz; Stepien, Magdalena; Merritt, Melissa A.; Riboli, Elio; Cross, Amanda J. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-18)
      <p><i>Background</i>: Epidemiological studies suggest that haem iron, which is found predominantly in red meat and increases endogenous formation of carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds, may be positively associated with lung cancer. The objective was to examine the relationship between haem iron intake and lung cancer risk using detailed smoking history data and serum cotinine to control for potential ...
    • Hypomethylation of smoking-related genes is associated with future lung cancer in four prospective cohorts 

      Fasanelli, Francesca; Baglietto, Laura; Ponzi, Erica; Guida, Florence; Campanella, Gianluca; Johansson, Mattias; Grankvist, Kjell; Johansson, Mikael; Assumma, Manuela Bianca; Naccarati, Alessio; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc; Ala, Ugo; Faltus, Christian; Kaaks, Rudolf; Risch, Angela; De Stavola, Bianca; Hodge, Allison; Giles, Graham G.; Southey, Melissa C.; Relton, Caroline L.; Haycock, Philip C.; Lund, Eiliv; Polidoro, Silvia; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Severi, Gianluca; Vineis, Paolo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-12-15)
      DNA hypomethylation in certain genes is associated with tobacco exposure but it is unknown whether these methylation changes translate into increased lung cancer risk. In an epigenome-wide study of DNA from pre-diagnostic blood samples from 132 case–control pairs in the NOWAC cohort, we observe that the most significant associations with lung cancer risk are for cg05575921 in AHRR (OR for 1 s.d.=0.37, ...