Assessing the protective role of allergic disease in gastrointestinal tract cancers using Mendelian randomization analysis

Affiliations

• ¹ Unit of Cardiovascular and Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ² MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ³ MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ⁵ British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ⁶ National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK.
• ⁷ Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁸ MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.