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    Poster Session (ID 8)

    • Event: ACLC 2018
    • Type: Poster Session
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    • Presentations: 1
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    • Coordinates: 11/07/2018, 00:00 - 00:00, Poster Hall
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      P038 - Docosapentaenoic Acid and Lung Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomisation Study (ID 54)

      00:00 - 00:00  |  Author(s): X. Hou

      • Abstract

      Background:
      Docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid have been reported to be associated with lung cancer risk; however, it remains unknown whether docosapentaenoic acid (DPA), another kind of n-3 PUFA, is related to lung cancer risk. The aim of this study is to investigate the causal effect of DPA on lung cancer with Mendelian randomization (MR) method.


      Method:
      With a two-sample MR approach, we analyzed the summary data from the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE, 8,866 individuals of European ancestry) Consortium and International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO, 11348 lung cancer cases and 15861 controls; European ancestry). Three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that were genome-wide significant (p<5*10-8; linkage disequilibrium r2 < 0.1) for plasma DPA levels in CHARGE were explored for their associations with lung cancer risk in the ILCCO. Analysis for two different histologic subtypes of lung cancer (adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC)) was performed to investigate whether the effect of DPA is associated with the histology of lung cancer. To investigate whether lung cancer might be a causal factor for DPA, we performed an MR analysis in the opposite direction using 3 SNPs linked to lung cancer. Evidence of directional pleiotropy averaged across all variants was sought using MR