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Table 1 Statistical power in Mendelian randomization (MR) study of circulating vitamin E and cancer risk in cancer-specific GWAS

From: Association between circulating vitamin E and ten common cancers: evidence from large-scale Mendelian randomization analysis and a longitudinal cohort study

Cancer type

Sample size (N = 602,435)

F-statistics

Minimum detectable ORa

Cases (N = 297,699)

Controls (N = 304,736)

Bladder cancer

5930

5468

198.12

0.67/1.49

Breast cancer

122,977

105,974

3960.48

0.91/1.09

Colorectal cancer

24,476

23,073

823.31

0.82/1.22

Esophagus cancer

2268

1865

72.48

0.53/1.97

Lung cancer

29,266

56,450

1483.37

0.85/1.16

Oral and pharynx cancer

4950

2907

136.88

0.63/1.70

Ovarian cancer

22,406

40,941

1096.52

0.83/1.19

Pancreatic cancer

4970

3532

148.03

0.64/1.63

Prostate cancer

79,148

61,106

2426.55

0.89/1.12

Kidney cancer

1308

3420

82.77

0.44/1.81

  1. aMinimum detectable OR (per 1 SD of vitamin E) was calculated based on 80% power, 5% alpha level, and 1.7% of vitamin E variance (R2) explained by 3 SNPs used in this study