• High levels of C-reactive protein are associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer: Results from the Ovarian Cancer Cohort Consortium 

      Peres, Lauren C.; Mallen, Adrianne R.; Townsend, Mary K.; Poole, Elizabeth M.; Trabert, Britton; Allen, Naomi E.; Arslan, Alan A.; Dossus, Laure; Fortner, Renee T.; Gram, Inger T.; Hartge, Patricia; Idahl, Annika; Kaaks, Rudolf; Kvaskoff, Marina; Magliocco, Anthony M.; Merritt, Melissa A.; Quirós, Ramón; Tjonneland, Anne; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Tumino, Rosario; van Gils, Carla H.; Visvanathan, Kala; Wentzensen, Nicolas; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Tworoger, Shelley S. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-28)
      Growing epidemiologic evidence supports chronic inflammation as a mechanism of ovarian carcinogenesis. An association between a circulating marker of inflammation, C-reactive protein (CRP), and ovarian cancer risk has been consistently observed, yet, potential heterogeneity of this association by tumor and patient characteristics has not been adequately explored. In this study, we pooled data from ...
    • Vitamin D-related genes, blood vitamin D levels and colorectal cancer risk in Western European populations 

      Fedirko, Veronika; Mandle, Hannah B.; Zhu, Wanzhe; Hughes, David J.; Siddiq, Afshan; Ferrari, Pietro; Romieu, Isabelle; Riboli, Elio; Bueno-de-Mesquita, Hendrik Bastiaan; van Duijnhoven, Fränzel J.B.; Siersema, Peter D.; Tjønneland, Anne; Olsen, Anja; Perduca, Vittorio; Carbonnel, Franck; Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Kühn, Tilman; Johnson, Theron; Krasimira, Aleksandrova; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Makrythanasis, Periklis; Thanos, Dimitris; Panico, Salvatore; Krogh, Vittorio; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Skeie, Guri; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Colorado-Yohar, Sandra; Sala, Núria; Barricarte, Aurelio; Sánchez, María-José; Quirós, Ramón; Amiano, Pilar; Gylling, Björn; Harlid, Sophia; Perez-Cornago, Aurora; Heath, Alicia K.; Tsilidis, Konstantinos K.; Aune, Dagfinn; Freisling, Heinz; Murphy, Neil; Gunter, Marc J.; Jenab, Mazda (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-20)
      Higher circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels (25(OH)D) have been found to be associated with lower risk for colorectal cancer (CRC) in prospective studies. Whether this association is modified by genetic variation in genes related to vitamin D metabolism and action has not been well studied in humans. We investigated 1307 functional and tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs; individually, ...