• Social Inequalities and Mortality in Europe - Results from a Large Multi-National Cohort 

      Gallo, Valentina; Mackenbach, Johan P.; Ezzati, Majid; Menvielle, Gwenn; Kunst, Anton E.; Rohrmann, Sabine; Kaaks, Rudolf; Teucher, Birgit; Boeing, Heiner; Bergmann, Manuela M.; Tjønneland, Anne; Dalton, Susanne O.; Overvad, Kim; Redondo, Maria Luisa; Agudo, Antonio; Daponte, Antonio; Arriola, Larraitz; Navarro, Camen; Gurrea, Aurelio Barricarte; Khaw, Kay-Tee; Wareham, Nick; Key, Tim; Naska, Androniki; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Trichopoulos, Dimitrios; Masala, Giovanna; Panico, Salvatore; Contiero, Paolo; Tumino, Rosario; Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. Bas; Siersema, Peter D.; Peeters, Petra P. H.; Zackrisson, Sophia; Almquist, Martin; Eriksson, Sture; Hallmans, Göran; Skeie, Guri; Braaten, Tonje; Lund, Eiliv; Illner, Anne-Kathrin; Mouw, Traci; Riboli, Elio; Vineis, Paolo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Socio-economic inequalities in mortality are observed at the country level in both North America and Europe. The purpose of this work is to investigate the contribution of specific risk factors to social inequalities in cause-specific mortality using a large multi-country cohort of Europeans. A total of 3,456,689 person/years follow-up of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and ...
    • Sources of pre-analytical variations in yield of DNA extracted from blood samples: analysis of 50,000 DNA samples in EPIC 

      Caboux, Elodie; Lallemand, Christophe; Ferro, Gilles; Hemon, Bertrand; Mendy, Maimuna; Biessy, Carine; Sims, Matt; Wareham, Nicholas; Britten, Abigail; Boland, Anne; Hutchinson, Amy; Siddiq, Afshan; Vineis, Paolo; Riboli, Elio; Romieu, Isabelle; Rinaldi, Sabina; Gunter, Mark J.; Peeters, Petra H.M.; van der Schouw, Yvonne T.; Travis, Ruth C.; Bueno-De-Mesquita, H. Bas; Canzian, Federico; Sanchez, Maria-José; Skeie, Guri; Olsen, Karina Standahl; Lund, Eiliv; Bilbao, Roberto; Sala, Núria; Barricarte, Aurelio; Palli, Domenico; Navarro, Carmen; Panico, Salvatore; Redondo, Maria Luisa; Polidoro, Silvia; Dossus, Laure; Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Clavel-Chapelon, Françoise; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Trichopoulos, Dimitrios; Lagiou, Pagona; Boeing, Heiner; Fisher, Eva; Tumino, Rosario; Agnoli, Claudia; Hainaut, Pierre (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and nutrition (EPIC) is a long-term, multi-centric prospective study in Europe investigating the relationships between cancer and nutrition. This study has served as a basis for a number of Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and other types of genetic analyses. Over a period of 5 years, 52,256 EPIC DNA samples have been extracted using an automated ...