Body Mass Index and Risk of Colorectal Cancer According to Fatty Acid Synthase Expression in the Nurses’ Health Study

Fatty acid synthase (FASN) plays an important role in energy metabolism of fatty acids and is overexpressed in some colon cancers. We investigated whether associations between body mass index (BMI) and risk of colorectal cancer varied according to FASN expression. During follow-up of 109 051 women i...

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Main Authors: Kuchiba, Aya, Morikawa, Teppei, Yamauchi, Mai, Imamura, Yu, Liao, Xiaoyun, Chan, Andrew T., Meyerhardt, Jeffrey A., Giovannucci, Edward, Fuchs, Charles S., Ogino, Shuji
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2012
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Brief Communication
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295745/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22312135
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djr542
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