• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • DNA methylome analysis identifies accelerated epigenetic ageing associated with postmenopausal breast cancer susceptibility 

      Ambatipudi, Srikant; Horvath, Steve; Perrier, Flavie; Cuenin, Cyrille; Hernandez-Vargas, Hector; Le Calvez-Kelm, Florence; Durand, Geoffroy; Byrnes, Graham; Ferrari, Pietro; Bouaoun, Liacine; Sklias, Athena; Chajès, Véronique; Overvad, Kim; Severi, Gianluca; Baglietto, Laura; Clavel-Chapelon, Françoise; Kaaks, Rudolf; Barrdahl, Myrto; Boeing, Heiner; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Lagiou, Pagona; Naska, Androniki; Masala, Giovanna; Agnoli, Claudia; Polidoro, Silvia; Tumino, Rosario; Panico, Salvatore; Dollé, Martijn; Peeters, Petra H.M.; Onland-Moret, N. Charlotte; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Quirós, José Ramón; Agudo, Antonio; Rodriguez-Barranco, Miguel; Huerta Castaño, José María; Barricarte, Aurelio; Fernández, Ander Matheu; Travis, Ruth C.; Vineis, Paolo; Muller, David C.; Riboli, Elio; Gunter, Marc; Romieu, Isabelle; Herceg, Zdenko (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-02-28)
      Aim of the study: A vast majority of human malignancies are associated with ageing, and age is a strong predictor of cancer risk. Recently, DNA methylation-based marker of ageing, known as ‘epigenetic clock’, has been linked with cancer risk factors. This study aimed to evaluate whether the epigenetic clock is associated with breast cancer risk susceptibility and to identify potential epigenetics-based ...
    • Epigenetic mechanisms of lung carcinogenesis involve differentially methylated CpG sites beyond those associated with smoking 

      Petrovic, Dusan; Bodinier, Barbara; Dagnino, Sonia; Whitaker, Matthew; Karimi, Maryam; Campanella, Gianluca; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Polidoro, Silvia; Palli, Domenico; Krogh, Vittorio; Tumino, Rosario; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Panico, Salvatore; Lund, Eiliv; Dugué, Pierre-Antoine; Giles, Graham G; Severi, Gianluca; Southey, Melissa; Vineis, Paolo; Stringhini, Silvia; Bochud, Murielle; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Vermeulen, Roel CH; Guida, Florence; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-20)
      Smoking-related epigenetic changes have been linked to lung cancer, but the contribution of epigenetic alterations unrelated to smoking remains unclear. We sought for a sparse set of CpG sites predicting lung cancer and explored the role of smoking in these associations. We analysed CpGs in relation to lung cancer in participants from two nested case–control studies, using (LASSO)-penalised ...
    • Epigenome-wide association study reveals decreased average methylation levels years before breast cancer diagnosis 

      van Veldhoven, Karin; Polidoro, Silvia; Baglietto, Laura; Severi, Gianluca; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Panico, Salvatore; Mattiello, Amalia; Palli, Domenico; Masala, Giovanna; Krogh, Vittorio; Agnoli, Claudia; Tumino, Rosario; Frasca, Graziella; Flower, Kirsty; Curry, Ed; Orr, Nicholas; Tomczyk, Katarzyna; Jones, Michael E.; Ashworth, Alan; Swerdlow, Anthony; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc; Lund, Eiliv; Garcia-Closas, Montserrat; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Flanagan, James M.; Vineis, Paolo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-08-04)
      Background: Interest in the potential of DNA methylation in peripheral blood as a biomarker of cancer risk is increasing. We aimed to assess whether epigenome-wide DNA methylation measured in peripheral blood samples obtained before onset of the disease is associated with increased risk of breast cancer. We report on three independent prospective nested case-control studies from the European ...
    • 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, ...
    • Identifying and correcting epigenetics measurements for systematic sources of variation 

      Perrier, Flavie; Novoloaca, Alexei; Ambatipudi, Srikant; Baglietto, Laura; Ghantous, Akram; Perduca, Vittorio; Barrdahl, Myrto; Harlid, Sophia; Ong, Ken K; Cardona, Alexia; Polidoro, Silvia; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Overvad, Kim; Omichessan, Hanane; Dollé, Martijn; Bamia, Christina; Huerta, José María; Vineis, Paolo; Herceg, Zdenko; Romieu, Isabelle; Ferrari, Pietro (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-21)
      <i>Background</i>: Methylation measures quantified by microarray techniques can be affected by systematic variation due to the technical processing of samples, which may compromise the accuracy of the measurement process and contribute to bias the estimate of the association under investigation. The quantification of the contribution of the systematic source of variation is challenging in datasets ...
    • Infertility and incident endometrial cancer risk: A pooled analysis from the epidemiology of endometrial cancer consortium (E2C2) 

      Yang, Hannah P.; Cook, Linda S.; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Adami, Hans Olov; Anderson, Kristin E.; Cai, Hui; Cerhan, James R.; Clendenen, Tess V.; Felix, Ashley Sinclair; Friedenreich, Christine Martha; García-Closas, Montserrat; Goodman, Mark T.; Liang, Xiaolin; Lissowska, Jolanta; Lu, Lichun; Magliocco, Anthony Martin; Mccann, Susan E.; Moysich, Kirsten Barbara; Olson, Sara H.; Petruzella, Stacey; Pike, Malcolm C.; Polidoro, Silvia; Ricceri, Fulvio; Risch, Harvey A.; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Setiawan, Veronica Wendy; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Spurdle, Amanda B.; Trabert, Britton L.; Webb, Penelope M.; Wentzensen, Nicolas; Xiang, Yong-Bing; Xu, Youming; Yu, Herbert; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Brinton, Louise Annette (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-02-17)
      Background: Nulliparity is an endometrial cancer risk factor, but whether or not this association is due to infertility is unclear. Although there are many underlying infertility causes, few studies have assessed risk relations by specific causes.<p> <p>Methods: We conducted a pooled analysis of 8153 cases and 11 713 controls from 2 cohort and 12 case-control studies. All studies provided selfreported ...
    • Socioeconomic position, lifestyle habits and biomarkers of epigenetic aging: A multi-cohort analysis 

      Fiorito, Giovanni; McCrory, Cathal; Robinson, Oliver; Carmeli, Cristian; Rosales, Carolina Ochoa; Zhang, Yan; Colicino, Elena; Dugué, Pierre-Antoine; Artaud, Fanny; McKay, Gareth J.; Jeong, Ayoung; Mishra, Pashupati P.; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Krogh, Vittorio; Panico, Salvatore; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Tumino, Rosario; Palli, Domenico; Matullo, Giuseppe; Guarrera, Simonetta; Gandini, Martina; Bochud, Murielle; Dermitzakis, Emmanouil; Muka, Taulant; Schwartz, Joel; Vokonas, Pantel S.; Just, Allan; Hodge, Allison M.; Giles, Graham G.; Southey, Melissa C.; Hurme, Mikko A.; Young, Ian; McKnight, Amy Jayne; Kunze, Sonja; Waldenberger, Melanie; Peters, Annette; Schwettmann, Lars; Lund, Eiliv; Baccarelli, Andrea; Milne, Roger L.; Kenny, Rose A.; Elbaz, Alexis; Brenner, Hermann; Kee, Frank; Voortman, Trudy; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Lehtimäki, Terho; Elliot, Paul; Stringhini, Silvia; Vineis, Paolo; Polidoro, Silvia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-14)
      <p>Differences in health status by socioeconomic position (SEP) tend to be more evident at older ages, suggesting the involvement of a biological mechanism responsive to the accumulation of deleterious exposures across the lifespan. DNA methylation (DNAm) has been proposed as a biomarker of biological aging that conserves memory of endogenous and exogenous stress during life. <p>We examined the ...
    • Sources of pre-analytical variations in yield of DNA extracted from blood samples: analysis of 50,000 DNA samples in EPIC 

      Caboux, Elodie; Lallemand, Christophe; Ferro, Gilles; Hemon, Bertrand; Mendy, Maimuna; Biessy, Carine; Sims, Matt; Wareham, Nicholas; Britten, Abigail; Boland, Anne; Hutchinson, Amy; Siddiq, Afshan; Vineis, Paolo; Riboli, Elio; Romieu, Isabelle; Rinaldi, Sabina; Gunter, Mark J.; Peeters, Petra H.M.; van der Schouw, Yvonne T.; Travis, Ruth C.; Bueno-De-Mesquita, H. Bas; Canzian, Federico; Sanchez, Maria-José; Skeie, Guri; Olsen, Karina Standahl; Lund, Eiliv; Bilbao, Roberto; Sala, Núria; Barricarte, Aurelio; Palli, Domenico; Navarro, Carmen; Panico, Salvatore; Redondo, Maria Luisa; Polidoro, Silvia; Dossus, Laure; Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Clavel-Chapelon, Françoise; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Trichopoulos, Dimitrios; Lagiou, Pagona; Boeing, Heiner; Fisher, Eva; Tumino, Rosario; Agnoli, Claudia; Hainaut, Pierre (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and nutrition (EPIC) is a long-term, multi-centric prospective study in Europe investigating the relationships between cancer and nutrition. This study has served as a basis for a number of Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and other types of genetic analyses. Over a period of 5 years, 52,256 EPIC DNA samples have been extracted using an automated ...
    • 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 ...