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New role of fat-free mass in cancer risk linked with genetic predisposition

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Cancer risk is associated with the widely debated measure body mass index (BMI). Fat mass and fat-free mass measurements from bioelectrical impedance may further clarify this association. The UK Biobank is a rare resource in which bioelectrical impedance and BMI data was collected on ~ 500,000 individuals. Using this dataset, a comprehensive analysis using regression, principal component and genome-wide genetic association, provided multiple levels of evidence that increasing whole body fat (WBFM) and fat-free mass (WBFFM) are both associated with increased post-menopausal breast cancer risk, and colorectal cancer risk in men. WBFM was inversely associated with prostate cancer. We also identified rs615029[T] and rs1485995[G] as associated in independent analyses with both PMBC (p = 1.56E–17 and 1.78E–11) and WBFFM (p = 2.88E–08 and 8.24E–12), highlighting splice variants of the intriguing long non-coding RNA CUPID1 (LINC01488) as a potential link between PMBC risk and fat-free mass.
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10.1038/s41598-024-54291-7

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Springer Nature
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Scientific Reports More from this journal
Volume:
14
Issue:
1
Article number:
7270
Publication date:
2024-03-27
Acceptance date:
2024-02-10
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2045-2322
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38538606


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1931421
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pubs:1931421
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2024-05-13
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