ArticleFrontiers in oncology2023
Causal associations between schizophrenia and cancers risk: a Mendelian randomization study.
Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Concomitant pathologies and their impact on schizophrenia: a narrative overview of current evidence.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Review
- Machine learning-based predictive models and subtypes patterns in peripheral blood of schizophrenia based on a machine learning computational framework.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Association of antipsychotic drug target genes and risk of lung cancer: a Mendelian randomization study.Discover oncology · 2025Article
- Genetically proxied risk and protective factors for pancreatic cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of Mendelian randomization studies.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2025Article
- 'Whole-Body' Perspectives of Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Illness: miRNA-143 as an Exemplary Molecule Implicated across Multi-System Dysfunctions.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- Multimorbidity and the Etiology of Schizophrenia.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Asparagine reduces the risk of schizophrenia: a bidirectional two-sample mendelian randomization study of aspartate, asparagine and schizophrenia.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Application of Mendelian randomization in thyroid diseases: a review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Review
- Commentary: Causal associations between schizophrenia and cancers risk: a Mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Previous observational studies have reported inconsistent findings regarding the incidence of cancer in patients with schizophrenia compared to the general population. The causal relationship between schizophrenia and cancer remains unclear and requires further investigation. Objective: To investigate the causal relationship between schizophrenia and cancer. Methods: In this study, a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis was conducted using publicly available genome-wide association studies to determine the causal relationship. The effect estimates were calculated using the random-effects inverse-variance-weighted method. Results: We determined a causal relationship between genetic predisposition to schizophrenia and cancer, with schizophrenia increasing lung cancer (odds ratio (OR) = 1.0007; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.0001-1.0013; Conclusions: This study conducted a two-sample MR analysis and discovered a positive causal relationship between schizophrenia and breast, ovarian, thyroid, lung, and colorectal cancers. On the other hand, an inverse causal relationship was found between schizophrenia and malignant neoplasm of the stomach.
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