Circulating bilirubin levels and risk of colorectal cancer: Serological and Mendelian randomization analyses

• Main Authors: Seyed Khoei, Nazlisadat, Jenab, Mazda, Murphy, Neil, Banbury, Barbara L., Carreras-Torres, Robert, Viallon, Vivian, Kuehn, Tilman, Bueno-de-Mesquita, Bas, Aleksandrova, Krasimira, Cross, Amanda J., Weiderpass, Elisabete, Stepien, Magdalena, Bulmer, Andrew, Tjonneland, Anne, Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine, Severi, Gianluca, Carbonnel, Franck, Katzke, Verena, Boeing, Heiner, Bergmann, Manuela M., Trichopoulou, Antonia, Karakatsani, Anna, Martimianaki, Georgia, Palli, Domenico, Tagliabue, Giovanna, Panico, Salvatore, Tumino, Rosario, Sacerdote, Carlotta, Skeie, Guri, Merino, Susana, Bonet, Catalina, Rodriguez-Barranco, Miguel, Gil, Leire, Chirlaque, Maria-Dolores, Ardanaz, Eva, Myte, Robin, Hultdin, Johan, Perez-Cornago, Aurora, Aune, Dagfinn, Tsilidis, Konstantinos, Albanes, -, Baron, John A., Berndt, Sonja I., Bezieau, Stephane, Brenner, Hermann, Campbell, Peter T., Casey, Graham, Chan, Andrew T., Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J., Cotterchio, Michelle, Gallinger, Steven, Gruber, Stephen B., Haile, Robert W., Hampe, Jochen, Hoffmeister, Michael, Hopper, John L., Hsu, Li, Huyghe, Jeroen R., Jenkins, Mark A., Joshi, Amit D., Kampman, Ellen, Larsson, Susanna C., Le Marchand, Loic, Li, Christopher I., Li, Li, Lindblom, Annika, Lindor, Noralane M., Martin, Vicente, Moreno, Victor, Newcomb, Polly A., Offit, Kenneth, Ogino, Shuji, Parfrey, Patrick S., Pharoah, Paul D. P., Rennert, Gad, Sakoda, Lori C., Schafmayer, Clemens, Schmit, Stephanie L., Schoen, Robert E., Slattery, Martha L., Thibodeau, Stephen N., Ulrich, Cornelia M., van Duijnhoven, Franzel J. B., Weigl, Korbinian, Weinstein, Stephanie J., White, Emily, Wolk, Alicja, Woods, Michael O., Wu, Anna H., Zhang, Xuehong, Ferrari, Pietro, Anton, Gabriele, Peters, Annette, Peters, Ulrike, Gunter, Marc J., Wagner, Karl-Heinz, Freisling, Heinz
• Format: Article
• Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2020
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/36409/

Background Bilirubin, a byproduct of hemoglobin breakdown and purported anti-oxidant, is thought to be cancer preventive. We conducted complementary serological and Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses to investigate whether alterations in circulating levels of bilirubin are associated with risk of...