• 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 ...
    • 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, ...
    • Ultra-processed foods, adiposity and risk of head and neck cancer and oesophageal adenocarcinoma in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study: a mediation analysis 

      Morales-Berstein, Fernanda; Biessy, Carine; Viallon, Vivian; Goncalves-Soares, Ana; Casagrande, Corinne; Hémon, Bertrand; Kliemann, Nathalie; Cairat, Manon; Blanco Lopez, Jessica; Al Nahas, Aline; Chang, Kiara; Vamos, Eszter; Rauber, Fernanda; Bertazzi Levy, Renata; Barbosa Cunha, Diana; Jakszyn, Paula; Ferrari, Pietro; Vineis, Paolo; Masala, Giovanna; Catalano, Alberto; Sonestedt, Emily; Borné, Yan; Katzke, Verena; Bajracharya, Rashmita; Agnoli, Claudia; Guevara, Marcela; Heath, Alicia; Radoï, Loredana; Mancini, Francesca; Weiderpass Vainio, Elisabete; Huerta, José María; Sánchez, María-José; Tjønneland, Anne; Kyrø, Cecilie; Schulze, Matthias B.; Skeie, Guri; Lukic, Marko; Braaten, Tonje Bjørndal; Gunter, Marc; Millett, Christopher; Agudo, Antonio; Brennan, Paul; Borges, M. Carolina; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Richardson, Tom G.; Davey Smith, George; Relton, Caroline L.; Huybrechts, Inge (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-22)
      Purpose - To investigate the role of adiposity in the associations between ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption and head and neck cancer (HNC) and oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC) in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort.<p> <p>Methods - Our study included 450,111 EPIC participants. We used Cox regressions to investigate the associations between the ...