TY - JOUR
T1 - Influence of obesity-related risk factors in the aetiology of glioma
AU - Disney-Hogg, Linden
AU - Sud, Amit
AU - Law, Philip J
AU - Cornish, Alex J
AU - Kinnersley, Ben
AU - Ostrom, Quinn T
AU - Labreche, Karim
AU - Eckel-Passow, Jeanette E
AU - Armstrong, Georgina N
AU - Claus, Elizabeth B
AU - Il'yasova, Dora
AU - Schildkraut, Joellen
AU - Barnholtz-Sloan, Jill S
AU - Olson, Sara H
AU - Bernstein, Jonine L
AU - Lai, Rose K
AU - Swerdlow, Anthony J
AU - Simon, Matthias
AU - Hoffmann, Per
AU - Nöthen, Markus M
AU - Jöckel, Karl-Heinz
AU - Chanock, Stephen
AU - Rajaraman, Preetha
AU - Johansen, Christoffer
AU - Jenkins, Robert B
AU - Melin, Beatrice S
AU - Wrensch, Margaret R
AU - Sanson, Marc
AU - Bondy, Melissa L
AU - Houlston, Richard S
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - BACKGROUND: Obesity and related factors have been implicated as possible aetiological factors for the development of glioma in epidemiological observation studies. We used genetic markers in a Mendelian randomisation framework to examine whether obesity-related traits influence glioma risk. This methodology reduces bias from confounding and is not affected by reverse causation.METHODS: Genetic instruments were identified for 10 key obesity-related risk factors, and their association with glioma risk was evaluated using data from a genome-wide association study of 12,488 glioma patients and 18,169 controls. The estimated odds ratio of glioma associated with each of the genetically defined obesity-related traits was used to infer evidence for a causal relationship.RESULTS: No convincing association with glioma risk was seen for genetic instruments for body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, lipids, type-2 diabetes, hyperglycaemia or insulin resistance. Similarly, we found no evidence to support a relationship between obesity-related traits with subtypes of glioma-glioblastoma (GBM) or non-GBM tumours.CONCLUSIONS: This study provides no evidence to implicate obesity-related factors as causes of glioma.
AB - BACKGROUND: Obesity and related factors have been implicated as possible aetiological factors for the development of glioma in epidemiological observation studies. We used genetic markers in a Mendelian randomisation framework to examine whether obesity-related traits influence glioma risk. This methodology reduces bias from confounding and is not affected by reverse causation.METHODS: Genetic instruments were identified for 10 key obesity-related risk factors, and their association with glioma risk was evaluated using data from a genome-wide association study of 12,488 glioma patients and 18,169 controls. The estimated odds ratio of glioma associated with each of the genetically defined obesity-related traits was used to infer evidence for a causal relationship.RESULTS: No convincing association with glioma risk was seen for genetic instruments for body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, lipids, type-2 diabetes, hyperglycaemia or insulin resistance. Similarly, we found no evidence to support a relationship between obesity-related traits with subtypes of glioma-glioblastoma (GBM) or non-GBM tumours.CONCLUSIONS: This study provides no evidence to implicate obesity-related factors as causes of glioma.
U2 - 10.1038/s41416-018-0009-x
DO - 10.1038/s41416-018-0009-x
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 29531326
SN - 0007-0920
VL - 118
SP - 1020
EP - 1027
JO - The British journal of cancer. Supplement
JF - The British journal of cancer. Supplement
IS - 7
ER -