Browsing Discussion Papers by Author "Plug, Erik"
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Education and cancer risk
Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers;777, Working paper, 2014-04)There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence ... -
The relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors to cancer risk and cancer mortality in Norway
Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte (Discussion papers;776, Working paper, 2014-04)Using Norwegian cancer registry data we study twin and non-twin siblings to decompose variation in cancer at most common sites and cancer mortality into a genetic, shared environment and individual (unshared environmental) ...