Original Investigation
Telomere Length and Risk of Cancer and Non-Neoplastic Diseases
The Telomeres Mendelian Randomization Collaboration; Philip C. Haycock, PhD; Stephen Burgess, PhD; Aayah Nounu, BSc; Jie Zheng, PhD; George N. Okoli, MBBS, MSc; Jack Bowden, PhD; Kaitlin Hazel Wade, PhD; Nicholas J. Timpson, PhD; David M. Evans, PhD; Peter Willeit, MD, PhD; Abraham Aviv, MD; Tom R. Gaunt, BSc, PhD; Gibran Hemani, PhD; Massimo Mangino, PhD; Hayley Patricia Ellis, BSc; Kathreena M. Kurian, MD; Karen A. Pooley, PhD; Rosalind A. Eeles, PhD; Jeffrey E. Lee, MD; Shenying Fang, MD, PhD; Wei V. Chen, MS; Matthew H. Law, PhD; Lisa M. Bowdler, BASc; Mark M. Iles, PhD; Qiong Yang, PhD; Bradford B. Worrall, MD, MSc; Hugh Stephen Markus, DM; Rayjean J. Hung, PhD; Chris I. Amos, PhD; Amanda B. Spurdle, PhD; Deborah J. Thompson, PhD; Tracy A. O’Mara, PhD; Brian Wolpin, MD, MPH; Laufey Amundadottir, PhD; Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon, PhD, MPH, RD; Antonia Trichopoulou, MD, PhD; N. Charlotte Onland-Moret, PhD; Eiliv Lund, PhD; Eric J. Duell, PhD; Federico Canzian, PhD; Gianluca Severi, PhD; Kim Overvad, PhD; Marc J. Gunter, PhD; Rosario Tumino, PhD; Ulrika Svenson, MD, PhD; Andre van Rij, MD, FRACS; Annette F. Baas, PhD; Matthew J. Bown, MB BCh, MD; Nilesh J. Samani, FMedSci; Femke N.G. van t’Hof, MD; Gerard Tromp, PhD, FAHA; Gregory T. Jones, PhD; Helena Kuivaniemi, MD, PhD, FAHA; James R. Elmore, MD; Mattias Johansson, PhD; James Mckay, PhD; Ghislaine Scelo, PhD; Robert Carreras-Torres, PhD; Valerie Gaborieau, BTEC; Paul Brennan, PhD; Paige M. Bracci, PhD; Rachel E. Neale, PhD; Sara H. Olson, PhD; Steven Gallinger, MD, MSc; Donghui Li, PhD; Gloria M. Petersen, PhD; Harvey A. Risch, MD, PhD; Alison P. Klein, PhD, MHS; Jiali Han, PhD; Christian C. Abnet, PhD, MPH; Neal D. Freedman, PhD, MPH; Philip R. Taylor, MD, ScD; John M. Maris, MD; Katja K. Aben, PhD; Lambertus A. Kiemeney, PhD; Sita H. Vermeulen, PhD; John K. Wiencke, PhD; Kyle M. Walsh, PhD; Margaret Wrensch, PhD, MPH; Terri Rice, MPH; Clare Turnbull, MD, PhD; Kevin Litchfield, MRes; Lavinia Paternoster, PhD; Marie Standl, PhD; Gonçalo R. Abecasis, DPhil; John Paul SanGiovanni, ScD; Yong Li, MD; Vladan Mijatovic, PhD; Yadav Sapkota, PhD; Siew-Kee Low, PhD; Krina T. Zondervan, DPhil; Grant W. Montgomery, PhD; Dale R. Nyholt, PhD; David A. van Heel, MD, PhD; Karen Hunt, PhD; Dan E. Arking, PhD; Foram N. Ashar, BS; Nona Sotoodehnia, MD, MPH; Daniel Woo, PhD; Jonathan Rosand, MD, MSc; Mary E. Comeau, MA; W. Mark Brown, MA; Edwin K. Silverman, MD, PhD; John E. Hokanson, PhD; Michael H. Cho, MD; Jennie Hui, PhD; Manuel A. Ferreira, PhD; Philip J. Thompson, FRACP; Alanna C. Morrison, PhD; Janine F. Felix, MD, PhD; Nicholas L. Smith, PhD; Angela M Christiano, PhD; Lynn Petukhova, PhD; Regina C. Betz, MD; Xing Fan, PhD; Xuejun Zhang, PhD; Caihong Zhu, PhD; Carl D. Langefeld, PhD; Susan D. Thompson, PhD; Feijie Wang, MSc; Xu Lin, PhD; David A. Schwartz, MD; Tasha Fingerlin, PhD; Jerome I. Rotter, MD; Mary Frances Cotch, PhD; Richard A. Jensen, OD, PhD; Matthias Munz, BSc, MSc; Henrik Dommisch, MD; Arne S. Schaefer, PhD; Fang Han, MD; Hanna M. Ollila, PhD; Ryan P. Hillary, BS; Omar Albagha, PhD; Stuart H. Ralston, MD; Chenjie Zeng, MPH; Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, MPH; Xiao-Ou Shu, MD, PhD; Andre Reis, MD; Steffen Uebe, PhD; Ulrike Hüffmeier, MD; Yoshiya Kawamura, MD, PhD; Takeshi Otowa, MD, PhD; Tsukasa Sasaki, MD, PhD; Martin Lloyd Hibberd, PhD; Sonia Davila, PhD; Gang Xie, MD, PhD; Katherine Siminovitch, MD; Jin-Xin Bei, PhD; Yi-Xin Zeng, MD, PhD; Asta Försti, PhD; Bowang Chen, PhD; Stefano Landi, PhD; Andre Franke, PhD; Annegret Fischer, PhD; David Ellinghaus, PhD; Carlos Flores, PhD; Imre Noth, MD; Shwu-Fan Ma, PhD; Jia Nee Foo, PhD; Jianjun Liu, PhD; Jong-Won Kim, MD, PhD; David G. Cox, PhD; Olivier Delattre, MD, PhD; Olivier Mirabeau, PhD; Christine F. Skibola, PhD; Clara S. Tang, PhD; Merce Garcia-Barcelo, MSc, PhD; Kai-Ping Chang, MD, PhD; Wen-Hui Su, PhD; Yu-Sun Chang, PhD; Nicholas G. Martin, PhD; Scott Gordon, PhD; Tracey D. Wade, PhD; Chaeyoung Lee, PhD; Michiaki Kubo, MD, PhD; Pei-Chieng Cha, PhD; Yusuke Nakamura, MD, PhD; Daniel Levy, MD; Masayuki Kimura, PhD; Shih-Jen Hwang, PhD; Steven Hunt, PhD; Tim Spector, MD, PhD; Nicole Soranzo, PhD; Ani W. Manichaikul, PhD; R. Graham Barr, MD, DrPH; Bratati Kahali, PhD; Elizabeth Speliotes, MD, PhD; Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, PhD; Ching-Yu Cheng, MD, PhD; Jost B. Jonas, MD; Tien Yin Wong, MBBS, PhD; Isabella Fogh, PhD; Kuang Lin, PhD; John F. Powell, PhD; Kenneth Rice, PhD; Caroline L. Relton, PhD, BSc, PGCE; Richard M. Martin, BMedSci, BM BS, MSc, PhD; George Davey Smith, DSc