Association between inflammatory bowel disease and cancer risk: evidence triangulation from genetic correlation, Mendelian randomization, and colocalization analyses across East Asian and European populations
Abstract Background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), has been associated with several cancer risks in observational studies, but the observed associations have been inconsistent and may face the bias of confounding and reverse causali...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2024-03-01
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| Series: | BMC Medicine |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-024-03352-9 |