Catherine M. Olsen
ORCID: 0000-0003-4483-1888
· 9 papers in corpus
meta-analysis
2024
STUDY QUESTION: Which genetic factors regulate female propensity for giving birth to spontaneous dizygotic (DZ) twins? SUMMARY ANSWER: We identified four new loci, GNRH1, FSHR, ZFPM1, and IPO8, in addition to previously identified loci, FS…
meta-analysis
2023
Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility. A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 controls of European and East Asian descent, identified 42 genom…
review
2016
BACKGROUND: Despite a large body of literature evaluating the association between recreational physical activity and epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) risk, the extant evidence is inconclusive, and little is known about the independent associ…
other
2015
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the proportion and number of cancers occurring in Australia in 2010 attributable to menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) use. METHODS: We estimated the population attributable fraction for cancers causally associated wi…
other
2013
Obesity and risk of ovarian cancer subtypes: evidence from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium
Whilst previous studies have reported that higher BMI increases a woman's risk of developing ovarian cancer, associations for the different histological subtypes have not been well defined. As the prevalence of obesity has increased dramati…
observational
2009
BACKGROUND: Although previous epidemiological studies have shown that women with endometriosis are more likely to be thinner and underweight, it is currently not clear whether this is a true characteristic of women who develop endometriosis…
observational
2008
Endometrioid and clear cell subtypes of ovarian cancer are both known to be closely associated with endometriosis and endometrial pathology, and so have often been combined in studies of causation. We have examined these ovarian cancers sep…
rct
2008
In 1998, Risch proposed a hypothesis for the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer relating to the role of androgens in stimulating epithelial cell proliferation. Although this hypothesis has been widely discussed, direct evidence to support it is…
observational
2007
B113 PURPOSE: Epidemiological evidence suggests that endometriosis and other endometrial pathologies increase risk of ovarian cancer but that this increased risk is related almost exclusively to the clear cell and endometrioid subtypes of o…