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Michelle Cotterchio

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ProfessorEpidemiology DivisionUniversity of Toronto

Michelle Cotterchio

Professor

Epidemiology Division

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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9 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2017.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2015.

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Latest papers

Red meat intake interacts with a TGF-β-pathway-based polygenic risk score to impact colorectal cancer risk: Application of a novel approach for polygenic risk score construction.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
Allometric versus traditional body-shape indices and risk of colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis.
International journal of obesity (2005) · 2024
Genome-Wide Gene-Environment Interaction Analyses to Understand the Relationship between Red Meat and Processed Meat Intake and Colorectal Cancer Risk.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2024

All 98 publications

Latest funding

Investigation of novel risk factors to understand the etiology of young-onset colorectal cancer and the alarming increasing incidence
CIHR · 2017 · Nominated PI
$99,975
Investigating the role of radon, air pollution, and diet on lung cancer risk among non-smokers in the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP)
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
$75,000
Trajectories of body mass index and pancreatic cancer risk: Identifying opportunities for primary prevention in early life
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$74,422

All 11 grants and awards

98 publications.

Red meat intake interacts with a TGF-β-pathway-based polygenic risk score to impact colorectal cancer risk: Application of a novel approach for polygenic risk score construction.

Mendez JS, Queme B, Fu Y, Morrison J, Lewinger JP, Kawaguchi E, Mi H, Obón-Santacana M, Moratalla-Navarro F, Martín V, Moreno V, Lin Y, Bien SA, Qu C, Su YR, White E, Harrison TA, Huyghe JR, Tangen CM, Newcomb PA, Phipps AI, Thomas CE, Conti DV, Wang J, Platz EA, Keku TO, Newton CC, Um CY, Kundaje A, Shcherbina A, Murphy N, Gunter MJ, Dimou N, Papadimitriou N, Bézieau S, van Duijnhoven FJ, Männistö S, Rennert G, Wolk A, Hoffmeister M, Brenner H, Chang-Claude J, Tian Y, Le Marchand L, Cotterchio M, Tsilidis KK, Bishop DT, Melaku YA, Lynch BM, Buchanan DD, Ulrich CM, Ose J, Peoples AR, Pellatt AJ, Li L, Devall MA, Campbell PT, Albanes D, Weinstein SJ, Berndt SI, Gruber SB, Ruiz-Narvaez E, Song M, Joshi AD, Drew DA, Petrick JL, Chan AT, Giannakis M, Hsu L, Peters U, Gauderman WJ, Stern MC

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2025

DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.13.25329599 PMID: 40568668

Allometric versus traditional body-shape indices and risk of colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis.

Rontogianni MO, Bouras E, Aglago EK, Freisling H, Murphy N, Cotterchio M, Hampe J, Lindblom A, Pai RK, Pharoah PDP, Phipps AI, van Duijnhoven FJB, Visvanathan K, van Guelpen B, Li CI, Brenner H, Pellatt AJ, Ogino S, Gunter MJ, Peters U, Christakoudi S, Tsilidis KK

International journal of obesity (2005)2024

DOI: 10.1038/s41366-024-01479-6 PMID: 38297030

Genome-Wide Gene-Environment Interaction Analyses to Understand the Relationship between Red Meat and Processed Meat Intake and Colorectal Cancer Risk.

Stern MC, Sanchez Mendez J, Kim AE, Obón-Santacana M, Moratalla-Navarro F, Martín V, Moreno V, Lin Y, Bien SA, Qu C, Su YR, White E, Harrison TA, Huyghe JR, Tangen CM, Newcomb PA, Phipps AI, Thomas CE, Kawaguchi ES, Lewinger JP, Morrison JL, Conti DV, Wang J, Thomas DC, Platz EA, Visvanathan K, Keku TO, Newton CC, Um CY, Kundaje A, Shcherbina A, Murphy N, Gunter MJ, Dimou N, Papadimitriou N, Bézieau S, van Duijnhoven FJB, Männistö S, Rennert G, Wolk A, Hoffmeister M, Brenner H, Chang-Claude J, Tian Y, Le Marchand L, Cotterchio M, Tsilidis KK, Bishop DT, Melaku YA, Lynch BM, Buchanan DD, Ulrich CM, Ose J, Peoples AR, Pellatt AJ, Li L, Devall MAM, Campbell PT, Albanes D, Weinstein SJ, Berndt SI, Gruber SB, Ruiz-Narvaez E, Song M, Joshi AD, Drew DA, Petrick JL, Chan AT, Giannakis M, Peters U, Hsu L, Gauderman WJ

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology2024

DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-23-0717 PMID: 38112776

Associations of CD4 Cell Count Measures With Infection-Related and Infection-Unrelated Cancer Risk Among People With HIV

Nicolau IA, Moineddin R, Brooks JD, Antoniou T, Gillis JL, Kendall CE, Cooper C, Cotterchio M, Salters K, Smieja M

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)202410 citations

DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000003452

Genome-wide interaction analysis of folate for colorectal cancer risk.

Bouras E, Kim AE, Lin Y, Morrison J, Du M, Albanes D, Barry EL, Baurley JW, Berndt SI, Bien SA, Bishop TD, Brenner H, Budiarto A, Burnett-Hartman A, Campbell PT, Carreras-Torres R, Casey G, Cenggoro TW, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Conti DV, Cotterchio M, Devall M, Diez-Obrero V, Dimou N, Drew DA, Figueiredo JC, Giles GG, Gruber SB, Gunter MJ, Harrison TA, Hidaka A, Hoffmeister M, Huyghe JR, Joshi AD, Kawaguchi ES, Keku TO, Kundaje A, Le Marchand L, Lewinger JP, Li L, Lynch BM, Mahesworo B, Männistö S, Moreno V, Murphy N, Newcomb PA, Obón-Santacana M, Ose J, Palmer JR, Papadimitriou N, Pardamean B, Pellatt AJ, Peoples AR, Platz EA, Potter JD, Qi L, Qu C, Rennert G, Ruiz-Narvaez E, Sakoda LC, Schmit SL, Shcherbina A, Stern MC, Su YR, Tangen CM, Thomas DC, Tian Y, Um CY, van Duijnhoven FJ, Van Guelpen B, Visvanathan K, Wang J, White E, Wolk A, Woods MO, Ulrich CM, Hsu L, Gauderman WJ, Peters U, Tsilidis KK

The American journal of clinical nutrition2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.08.010 PMID: 37640106

The association between genetically elevated polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of cancer.

Haycock PC, Borges MC, Burrows K, Lemaitre RN, Burgess S, Khankari NK, Tsilidis KK, Gaunt TR, Hemani G, Zheng J, Truong T, Birmann BM, OMara T, Spurdle AB, Iles MM, Law MH, Slager SL, Saberi Hosnijeh F, Mariosa D, Cotterchio M, Cerhan JR, Peters U, Enroth S, Gharahkhani P, Le Marchand L, Williams AC, Block RC, ACCC, CCFR-CORECT-GECCO, EPITHYR, InterLymph, MMAC, ECAC, ILCCO, PRACTICAL Consortium, PanScan, PanC4, Amos CI, Hung RJ, Zheng W, Gunter MJ, Smith GD, Relton C, Martin RM, Fatty Acids in Cancer Mendelian Randomization Collaboration

EBioMedicine2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104510 PMID: 37086649

Iron Status and Associated Factors among Canadian Women: Results from the Canadian Health Measures Survey.

Chang VC, Cotterchio M, Kotsopoulos J, Bondy SJ

The Journal of nutrition2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2022.10.011 PMID: 36788041

Genetic Predictors for Fecal Propionate and Butyrate-Producing Microbiome Pathway Are Not Associated with Colorectal Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis.

Lu Y, Zhao YC, Chang-Claude J, Gruber SB, Gsur A, Offit K, Vodickova L, Woods MO, Nguyen LH, Wade KH, Carreras-Torres R, Moreno V, Buchanan DD, Cotterchio M, Chan AT, Phipps AI, Peters U, Song M

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology2023

DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-22-0861 PMID: 36512731

Public Health Surveillance of Behavioral Cancer Risk Factors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Twitter Data

Christodoulakis N, Abdelkader W, Lokker C, Cotterchio M, Griffith LE, Vanderloo LM, Anderson LN

JMIR Formative Research20232 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.2196/46874 PMID: W4386780914

Circulating Levels of Testosterone, Sex Hormone Binding Globulin and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Observational and Mendelian Randomization Analyses.

Dimou N, Mori N, Harlid S, Harbs J, Martin RM, Smith-Byrne K, Papadimitriou N, Bishop DT, Casey G, Colorado-Yohar SM, Cotterchio M, Cross AJ, Marchand LL, Lin Y, Offit K, Onland-Moret NC, Peters U, Potter JD, Rohan TE, Weiderpass E, Gunter MJ, Murphy N

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology2021

DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-20-1690 PMID: 33879453

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Michelle Cotterchio

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Red meat intake interacts with a TGF-&#x3b2;-pathway-based polygenic risk score to impact colorectal cancer risk: Application of a novel approach for polygenic risk score construction.

Allometric versus traditional body-shape indices and risk of colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis.

Genome-Wide Gene-Environment Interaction Analyses to Understand the Relationship between Red Meat and Processed Meat Intake and Colorectal Cancer Risk.

Associations of CD4 Cell Count Measures With Infection-Related and Infection-Unrelated Cancer Risk Among People With HIV

Genome-wide interaction analysis of folate for colorectal cancer risk.

The association between genetically elevated polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of cancer.

Iron Status and Associated Factors among Canadian Women: Results from the Canadian Health Measures Survey.

Genetic Predictors for Fecal Propionate and Butyrate-Producing Microbiome Pathway Are Not Associated with Colorectal Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis.

Public Health Surveillance of Behavioral Cancer Risk Factors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Twitter Data

Circulating Levels of Testosterone, Sex Hormone Binding Globulin and Colorectal Cancer Risk: Observational and Mendelian Randomization Analyses.

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Audrey Laporte

Lonnie Zwaigenbaum

Evdokia Anagnostou

Aisha Lofters

Wei Xu

Aisha Lofters

George Tomlinson

Rayjean Hung

Red meat intake interacts with a TGF-β-pathway-based polygenic risk score to impact colorectal cancer risk: Application of a novel approach for polygenic risk score construction.