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Gallstones, Body Mass Index, C‐Reactive Protein, and Gallbladder Cancer: Mendelian Randomization Analysis of Chilean and European Genotype Data

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2020

Year

Carol Barahona Ponce, Dominique Scherer, Regina Brinster, Felix Boekstegers, Katherine Marcelain, Valentina Gárate‐Calderón, Bettina Müller, Gonzalo de Toro, Javier Retamales, Olga Barajas,
Hepatology

Abstract

Two risk factors considered in the current Chilean program for GBC prevention are causally linked to GBC risk: gallstones and BMI. For Europeans, BMI showed a causal effect on gallstone risk, which was itself causally linked to GBC risk.

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