Mendelian randomisation analysis strongly implicates adiposity with risk of developing colorectal cancer

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Funding Acknowledgements

We are grateful to all individuals who participated in the various studies. This study made use of genotyping data from the 1958 Birth Cohort, kindly made available by the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2. A full list of the investigators who contributed to the generation of the data is available at http://www.wtccc.org.uk/. At the Institute of Cancer Research, this work was supported by Cancer Research UK (C1298/A8362-Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK). Additional support was provided by the National Cancer Research Network. DJ was supported by a summer student grant from the BBRSC. In Edinburgh, the work was supported by Programme Grant funding from Cancer Research UK (C348/A12076). In Oxford, additional funding was provided by the Oxford Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre and the EU FP7 CHIBCHA grant. Core infrastructure support to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford was provided by grant (090532/Z/09/Z). We are grateful to many colleagues within UK Clinical Genetics Departments (for CORGI) and to many collaborators who participated in the VICTOR and QUASAR2 trials. We also thank colleagues from the UK National Cancer Research Network (for NSCCG). Support from the European Union (FP7/207-2013, grant 258236) and FP7 collaborative project SYSCOL and COST Action in the UK is also acknowledged (BM1206). The COIN and COIN-B trials were funded by Cancer Research UK and the Medical Research Council and were conducted with the support of the National Institute of Health Research Cancer Research Network. COIN and COIN-B translational studies were supported by the Bobby Moore Fund from Cancer Research UK, Tenovus, the Kidani Trust, Cancer Research Wales and the National Institute for Social Care and Health Research Cancer Genetics Biomedical Research Unit (2011-2014). NAA, RPM and SMW were funded and supported by KFSHRC. In Finland, this work was supported by grants from the Academy of Finland (Finnish Center of Excellence Program 2012-2017, 250345), the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, the Finnish Cancer Society (to KP), the European Research Council (ERC; 268648), the Sigrid Juselius Foundation, SYSCOL, the Nordic Information for Action eScience Center (NIASC), the Nordic Center of Excellence financed by NordForsk (project 62721, to KP) and State Research Funding of Kuopio University Hospital (B1401). We acknowledge the computational resources provided by the ELIXIR node, hosted at the CSC-IT Center for Science, Finland, and funded by the Academy of Finland (grants 271642 and 263164), the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland. VS was supported by the Finnish Academy (grant number 139635). Sample collection and genotyping in the Finnish Twin Cohort has been supported by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, ENGAGE-European Network for Genetic and Genomic Epidemiology, FP7-HEALTH-F4-2007 (201413), the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (grants AA-12502 and AA-00145 to Richard J Rose, and K02AA018755 to Danielle M Dick) and the Academy of Finland (100499, 205585, 265240 and 263278 to Jaakko Ka.prio (JK)).The work of the Colon Cancer Family Registry (CCFR) was supported by the National Cancer Institute (UM1 CA167551), National Institutes of Health and through cooperative agreements with the following CCFR centres: Australasian Colorectal Cancer Family Registry (U01 CA074778, U01/U24 CA097735), USC Consortium Colorectal Cancer Family Registry (U01/U24 CA074799), Mayo Clinic Cooperative Familial Registry for Colon Cancer Studies (U01/U24 CA074800), Ontario Familial Colorectal Cancer Registry (U01/U24 CA074783), Seattle Colorectal Cancer Family Registry (U01/U24 CA074794) and University of Hawaii Colorectal Cancer Family Registry (U01/U24 CA074806). The CCFR Illumina GWAS was supported by funding from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (U01 CA122839 and R01 CA143237 to GC). Seattle CCFR research was also supported by the Cancer Surveillance System of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center-Control Nos. N01-CN-67009 (1996-2003), N01-PC-35142 (2003-2010) and the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute (Contract No. HHSN2612013000121, 2010-2017) with additional support from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The collection of cancer incidence data for the State of Hawaii used in this study was supported by the Hawaii Department of Health as part of the statewide cancer reporting program mandated by Hawai`i Revised Statutes; the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program (SEER) awarded to the University of Hawaii (Control Nos. N01-PC-67001 1996-2003, N01-PC-35137 2003-10, Contract Nos. HHSN26120100037C 2010-13, HHSN261201300009I 2010-). The collection of cancer incidence data used in this study was supported by the California Department of Public Health as part of the statewide cancer reporting program mandated by California Health and Safety Code Section 103885; the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program contract HHSN261201000035C-awarded to the University of Southern California, and contract HHSN261201000034C-awarded to the Public Health Institute; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Program of Cancer Registries, under agreement-U58DP003862-01-awarded to the California Department of Public Health.