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Epidemiological studies have identified variations in blood trace metal concentrations as potential risk factors for the development of these cancers, but these studies are susceptible to multiple biases.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n To determine if variations in genetically predicted blood manganese are associated with risk of OCSCC, OPSCC, HPSCC, and LSCC.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>\n \n This population-based 2-sample\n cis<\/jats:italic>\n -mendelian randomization study used a genetic instrument for blood manganese derived from a meta-analysis of 3 individual-level genome-wide association study datasets of 6564 Scandinavian participants. Genetic associations for the development of the specified cancers were obtained from a nonoverlapping, multi-ancestral meta-analysis that combined individual-level genome-wide association study datasets comprising 38\u202f857 healthy controls, 5596 case patients with OCSCC, 2212 case patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)\u2013positive OPSCC, 1473 case patients with HPV-negative OPSCC, 898 case patients with HPSCC, and 4409 case patients with LSCC.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Exposures<\/jats:title>\n \n Increases in genetically predicted whole blood manganese concentration proxied by a genetic instrument including 2\n cis<\/jats:italic>\n -variants (single-nucleotide variants) selected due to their known functions in regulating manganese metabolism.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>\n The primary outcomes were the risk of OCSCC, OPSCC (HPV positive and HPV negative), HPSCC, and LSCC, evaluated by estimating the odds ratio (OR) and 95% CI of each outcome per 1-SD increase in whole blood manganese concentration after rank-based inverse normalization transformation.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n Genetically predicted higher blood manganese was found to have a statistically significant association with increased risk of OCSCC (OR, 1.25; 95% CI, 1.10-1.43;\n P<\/jats:italic>\n \u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.001) and HPV-positive OPSCC (OR, 1.23; 95% CI, 1.04-1.45;\n P<\/jats:italic>\n \u2009=\u2009.02). Associations between blood manganese and HPV-negative OPSCC (OR, 1.20; 95% CI, 0.95-1.50;\n P<\/jats:italic>\n \u2009=\u2009.13), HPSCC (OR, 1.25; 95% CI, 0.75-2.07;\n P<\/jats:italic>\n \u2009=\u2009.39), and LSCC (OR, 1.10; 95% CI, 0.92-1.32;\n P<\/jats:italic>\n \u2009=\u2009.28) were directionally concordant but not statistically significant.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>\n \n This\n cis<\/jats:italic>\n -mendelian randomization study demonstrates statistically significant associations between higher blood manganese concentrations and risk of OCSCC and HPV-positive OPSCC. 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