Leveraging Evolutionary Traits to Analyze Human Cancer Risk
Description
Can Body Height and BMI predict cancer trends in humans? Using a dataset of 220,181 individuals, with 31,822 individuals having malignancy records, we found that body height (p < 2e-16) and Body Mass Index (BMI) (p < 5.6e-05) are significant predictors of developing cancer. After stratifying by sex, we determined that men and women face an elevated risk of developing cancer with increases in body height, but a very slight increase in cancer risk with increases in BMI.
Date Created
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2023-12
Agent
- Author (aut): Martins, Brian
- Thesis director: Maley, Carlo
- Committee member: Richker, Harley
- Committee member: Marquez Alcaraz, Gissel
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College
- Contributor (ctb): Department of Psychology
- Contributor (ctb): School of Life Sciences