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SUBMITTER: Jiang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6934026 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jiang Xia X Dimou Niki L NL Al-Dabhani Kawthar K Lewis Sarah J SJ Martin Richard M RM Haycock Philip C PC Gunter Marc J MJ Key Timothy J TJ Eeles Rosalind A RA Muir Kenneth K Neal David D Giles Graham G GG Giovannucci Edward L EL Stampfer Meir M Pierce Brandon L BL Schildkraut Joellen M JM Warren Andersen Shaneda S Thompson Deborah D Zheng Wei W Kraft Peter P Tsilidis Konstantinos K KK
International journal of epidemiology 20191001 5
<h4>Background</h4>Observational studies have suggested an association between circulating vitamin D concentrations [25(OH)D] and risk of breast and prostate cancer, which was not supported by a recent Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis comprising 15 748 breast and 22 898 prostate-cancer cases. Demonstrating causality has proven challenging and one common limitation of MR studies is insufficient power.<h4>Methods</h4>We aimed to determine whether circulating concentrations of vitamin D are ca ...[more]