Mendelian randomization study of height and risk of colorectal cancer

Aaron P Thrift¹, Jian Gong¹, Ulrike Peters¹+41

• ¹Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA, Department of Medicine and Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics and Center for Basic Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA, Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translation Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, CHU Nantes, Service de Génétique Médicale, Nantes, France, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, USC Norris