Elom K Aglago, Andre E Kim, Yi Lin, Conghui Qu, Marina Evangelou, Yu Ren, John Morrison, Demetrius Albanes, Volker Arndt, Elizabeth L Barry, James W Baurley, Sonja I Berndt, Stephanie A Bien, D Timothy Bishop, Emmanouil Bouras, Hermann Brenner, Daniel D Buchanan, Arif Budiarto, Robert Carreras-Torres, Graham Casey, Tjeng Wawan Cenggoro, Andrew T Chan, Jenny Chang-Claude, Xuechen Chen, David V Conti, Matthew Devall, Virginia Díez-Obrero, Niki Dimou, David Drew, Jane C Figueiredo, Steven Gallinger, Graham G Giles, Stephen B Gruber, Andrea Gsur, Marc J Gunter, Heather Hampel, Sophia Harlid, Akihisa Hidaka, Tabitha A Harrison, Michael Hoffmeister, Jeroen R Huyghe, Mark A Jenkins, Kristina Jordahl, Amit D Joshi, Eric S Kawaguchi, Temitope O Keku, Anshul Kundaje, Susanna C Larsson, Loic Le Marchand, Juan Pablo Lewinger, Li Li, Brigid M Lynch, Bharuno Mahesworo, Marko Mandic, Mireia Obón-Santacana, Victor Moreno, Neil Murphy, Hongmei Nan, Rami Nassir, Polly A Newcomb, Shuji Ogino, Jennifer Ose, Rish K Pai, Julie R Palmer, Nikos Papadimitriou, Bens Pardamean, Anita R Peoples, Elizabeth A Platz, John D Potter, Ross L Prentice, Gad Rennert, Edward Ruiz-Narvaez, Lori C Sakoda, Peter C Scacheri, Stephanie L Schmit, Robert E Schoen, Anna Shcherbina, Martha L Slattery, Mariana C Stern, Yu-Ru Su, Catherine M Tangen, Stephen N Thibodeau, Duncan C Thomas, Yu Tian, Cornelia M Ulrich, Fränzel J B van Duijnhoven, Bethany Van Guelpen, Kala Visvanathan, Pavel Vodicka, Jun Wang, Emily White, Alicja Wolk, Michael O Woods, Anna H Wu, Natalia Zemlianskaia, Li Hsu, W James Gauderman, Ulrike Peters, Konstantinos K Tsilidis, Peter T Campbell
Colorectal cancer (CRC) risk can be impacted by genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors, including diet and obesity. Gene-environment (G×E) interactions can provide biological insights into the effects of obesity on CRC risk. Here, we assessed potential genome-wide G×E interactions between body mass index (BMI) and common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for CRC risk using data from 36,415 CRC cases and 48,451 controls from three international CRC consortia (CCFR, CORECT, and GECCO). The G×E tests included the conventional logistic regression using multiplicative terms (one-degree of freedom, 1DF test), the two-step EDGE method, and the joint 3DF test, each of which is powerful for detecting G×E interactions under specific conditions...
May 30, 2023: Cancer Research