Commentary on “Deciphering the Risk of Developing Lung Cancer after the Diagnosis of Gastric Cancer with Genetic Evidence: a European and East Asian Populations-Based Mendelian Randomization Analysis”
Fei Ying, Xuan Zhao, Tao Wang · 2026
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Fei Ying, Xuan Zhao, and Tao Wang wrote a 2026 commentary on a study using genetics to test whether stomach cancer raises the risk of lung cancer, and the reverse. The original study used a method that treats inherited gene variants as natural experiments, comparing European and East Asian populations. The commentators praise its rigour and offer extensions.
Their main suggestion is to split each cancer into its subtypes, since stomach and lung cancers each contain forms with different genetic roots. Subtype-level genetic data would let future studies reveal effects that pooled analyses hide. They also recommend following reporting guidelines for this method. The suggestions are framed as directions for complementary future work, not fixes for the published study.
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| CREATOR | Fei Ying, Xuan Zhao, Tao Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 4397 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |