Common variants in the obesity-associated genes FTO and MC4R are not associated with risk of colorectal cancer.
Cancer Epidemiology
Yang, Baiyu B; Thrift, Aaron P AP; Figueiredo, Jane C JC; Jenkins, Mark A MA; Schumacher, Fredrick R FR; Conti, David V DV; Lin, Yi Y; Win, Aung Ko AK; Limburg, Paul J PJ; Berndt, Sonja I SI; Brenner, Hermann H; Chan, Andrew T AT; Chang-Claude, Jenny J; Hoffmeister, Michael M; Hudson, Thomas J TJ; Marchand, Loïc Le LL; Newcomb, Polly A PA; Slattery, Martha L ML; White, Emily E; Peters, Ulrike U; Casey, Graham G; Campbell, Peter T PT
Low copy number of the salivary amylase gene predisposes to obesity.
Nature Genetics
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