학술논문

The influence of obesity-related factors in the etiology of renal cell carcinoma-A mendelian randomization study.
Document Type
article
Author
Mattias JohanssonRobert Carreras-TorresGhislaine SceloMark P PurdueDaniela MariosaDavid C MullerNicolas J TimpsonPhilip C HaycockKevin M BrownZhaoming WangYuanqing YeJonathan N HofmannMatthieu FollValerie GaborieauMitchell J MachielaLeandro M ColliPeng LiJean-Guillaume GarnierHelene BlancheAnne BolandLaurie BurdetteEgor ProkhortchoukKonstantin G SkryabinMeredith YeagerSanja Radojevic-SkodricSimona OgnjanovicLenka ForetovaIvana HolcatovaVladimir JanoutDana MatesAnush MukeriyaStefan RascuDavid ZaridzeVladimir BenckoCezary CybulskiEleonora FabianovaViorel JingaJolanta LissowskaJan LubinskiMarie NavratilovaPeter RudnaiSimone BenhamouGeraldine Cancel-TassinOlivier CussenotElisabete WeiderpassBörje LjungbergRaviprakash Tumkur SitaramChristel HäggströmFiona BruinsmaSusan J JordanGianluca SeveriIngrid WinshipKristian HveemLars J VattenTony FletcherSusanna C LarssonAlicja WolkRosamonde E BanksPeter J SelbyDouglas F EastonGabriella AndreottiLaura E Beane FreemanStella KoutrosSatu MännistöStephanie WeinsteinPeter E ClarkTodd L EdwardsLoren LipworthSusan M GapsturVictoria L StevensHallie CarolMatthew L FreedmanMark M PomerantzEunyoung ChoKathryn M WilsonJ Michael GazianoHoward D SessoNeal D FreedmanAlexander S ParkerJeanette E Eckel-PassowWen-Yi HuangRichard J KahnoskiBrian R LaneSabrina L NoyesDavid PetilloBin Tean TehUlrike PetersEmily WhiteGarnet L AndersonLisa JohnsonJuhua LuoJulie BuringI-Min LeeWong-Ho ChowLee E MooreTimothy EisenMarc HenrionJames LarkinPoulami BarmanBradley C LeibovichToni K ChoueiriG Mark LathropJean-Francois DeleuzeMarc GunterJames D McKayXifeng WuRichard S HoulstonStephen J ChanockCaroline ReltonJ Brent RichardsRichard M MartinGeorge Davey SmithPaul Brennan
Source
PLoS Medicine, Vol 16, Iss 1, p e1002724 (2019)
Subject
Medicine
Language
English
ISSN
1549-1277
1549-1676
Abstract
BackgroundSeveral obesity-related factors have been associated with renal cell carcinoma (RCC), but it is unclear which individual factors directly influence risk. We addressed this question using genetic markers as proxies for putative risk factors and evaluated their relation to RCC risk in a mendelian randomization (MR) framework. This methodology limits bias due to confounding and is not affected by reverse causation.Methods and findingsGenetic markers associated with obesity measures, blood pressure, lipids, type 2 diabetes, insulin, and glucose were initially identified as instrumental variables, and their association with RCC risk was subsequently evaluated in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 10,784 RCC patients and 20,406 control participants in a 2-sample MR framework. The effect on RCC risk was estimated by calculating odds ratios (ORSD) for a standard deviation (SD) increment in each risk factor. The MR analysis indicated that higher body mass index increases the risk of RCC (ORSD: 1.56, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.44-1.70), with comparable results for waist-to-hip ratio (ORSD: 1.63, 95% CI 1.40-1.90) and body fat percentage (ORSD: 1.66, 95% CI 1.44-1.90). This analysis further indicated that higher fasting insulin (ORSD: 1.82, 95% CI 1.30-2.55) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP; ORSD: 1.28, 95% CI 1.11-1.47), but not systolic blood pressure (ORSD: 0.98, 95% CI 0.84-1.14), increase the risk for RCC. No association with RCC risk was seen for lipids, overall type 2 diabetes, or fasting glucose.ConclusionsThis study provides novel evidence for an etiological role of insulin in RCC, as well as confirmatory evidence that obesity and DBP influence RCC risk.