Authors' response: Associations of obesity and circulating insulin and glucose with breast cancer risk
Int J Epidemiol
.
2019 Jun 1;48(3):1016-1017.
doi: 10.1093/ije/dyz015.
Authors
Xiang Shu
1
,
Lang Wu
1
,
Nikhil K Khankari
1
,
Xiao-Ou Shu
1
,
Thomas J Wang
2
,
Kyriaki Michailidou
3
4
,
Manjeet K Bolla
3
,
Qin Wang
3
,
Joe Dennis
3
,
Roger L Milne
5
6
,
Marjanka K Schmidt
7
8
,
Paul Pharoah
3
9
,
Irene L Andrulis
10
11
,
David J Hunter
12
13
,
Jacques Simard
14
,
Douglas F Easton
3
,
Wei Zheng
1
Affiliations
1
Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.
2
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
3
Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
4
Department of Electron Microscopy/Molecular Pathology, Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus.
5
Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
6
Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
7
Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
8
Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
9
Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
10
Fred A. Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
11
Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
12
Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
13
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
14
Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec Research Center, Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada.
PMID:
31220263
DOI:
10.1093/ije/dyz015
No abstract available
Publication types
Letter
Comment
MeSH terms
Breast Neoplasms*
Glucose
Humans
Insulin*
Mendelian Randomization Analysis
Obesity
Substances
Insulin
Glucose
Grants and funding
10119/CRUK_/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom
10124/CRUK_/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom
16561/CRUK_/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom