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SUBMITTER: Painter JN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5093082 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Painter Jodie N JN O'Mara Tracy A TA Marquart Louise L Webb Penelope M PM Attia John J Medland Sarah E SE Cheng Timothy T Dennis Joe J Holliday Elizabeth G EG McEvoy Mark M Scott Rodney J RJ Ahmed Shahana S Healey Catherine S CS Shah Mitul M Gorman Maggie M Martin Lynn L Hodgson Shirley V SV Beckmann Matthias W MW Ekici Arif B AB Fasching Peter A PA Hein Alexander A Rübner Matthias M Czene Kamila K Darabi Hatef H Hall Per P Li Jingmei J Dörk Thilo T Dürst Matthias M Hillemanns Peter P Runnebaum Ingo B IB Amant Frederic F Annibali Daniela D Depreeuw Jeroen J Lambrechts Diether D Neven Patrick P Cunningham Julie M JM Dowdy Sean C SC Goode Ellen L EL Fridley Brooke L BL Winham Stacey J SJ Njølstad Tormund S TS Salvesen Helga B HB Trovik Jone J Werner Henrica M J HM Ashton Katie A KA Otton Geoffrey G Proietto Anthony A Mints Miriam M Tham Emma E Bolla Manjeet K MK Michailidou Kyriaki K Wang Qin Q Tyrer Jonathan P JP Hopper John L JL Peto Julian J Swerdlow Anthony J AJ Burwinkel Barbara B Brenner Hermann H Meindl Alfons A Brauch Hiltrud H Lindblom Annika A Chang-Claude Jenny J Couch Fergus J FJ Giles Graham G GG Kristensen Vessela N VN Cox Angela A Pharoah Paul D P PD Tomlinson Ian I Dunning Alison M AM Easton Douglas F DF Thompson Deborah J DJ Spurdle Amanda B AB
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 20160822 11
<h4>Background</h4>The strongest known risk factor for endometrial cancer is obesity. To determine whether SNPs associated with increased body mass index (BMI) or waist-hip ratio (WHR) are associated with endometrial cancer risk, independent of measured BMI, we investigated relationships between 77 BMI and 47 WHR SNPs and endometrial cancer in 6,609 cases and 37,926 country-matched controls.<h4>Methods</h4>Logistic regression analysis and fixed effects meta-analysis were used to test for associa ...[more]