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Excess weight increased risk for colorectal cancer, independent of genetic risk
10 days ago | By Healio
Excess weight, regardless of polygenic risk score, correlated with an increased risk for colorectal cancer, according to results from a population-based, case-control study.
“Accumulated evidence has shown that a high BMI, as a proxy for excess body weight, is associated with increased CRC risk,” Xuechen Chen, MMed, of the division of clinical epidemiology and aging research at the German Cancer Research Center, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Network Open. “Polygenic risk scores , the combination of multiple single nucleotide variations identified in genome-wide
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