Circulating vitamin C concentration and risk of cancers: a Mendelian randomization study
Yuanqing Fu, Fengzhe Xu, Longda Jiang, Zelei Miao, Xinxiu Liang, Jian Yang +2 more
BMC Medicine
Abstract
These findings provide no evidence to support that physiological-level circulating vitamin C has a large effect on risk of the five most common cancers in European populations, but we cannot rule out very small effect sizes.
Concepts
Mendelian randomizationMedicineBreast cancerGenome-wide association studyOncologyOdds ratioInternal medicineGenetic association