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Further bias may have been introduced by excluding cases of AKI due to obstruction which were diagnosed by other radiologic methods.

Nevertheless, by excluding cases of congenital abnormality or significant macroscopic or microscopic pathologies affecting such organs in the present study, it is possible to provide the best estimates of normal organ weight ranges in this setting.

We performed sensitivity analyses by registry (leaving out each registry one at a time), stomach shape (Supplementary Figure 1) and tightness of matching of controls, and by excluding cases with a prior partial gastrectomy (N=4) or controls who did not match the case within 5 years with regard to year of birth (N=2), year of TC diagnosis (N=1) or follow-up window (N=3).

We performed sensitivity analyses to minimize potential reverse causation due to the presence of potential unrecognized diabetes at baseline by excluding cases occurring during the first 2 years of follow-up, and to minimize potential misclassification due to exposure changes over time by restricting analyses to events within 10 years of toenail sampling.

We corrected this dataset for missing values by excluding cases listwise, resulting in a reduction of the sample to 6567 observations.

Additional analyses were performed by including cases of carcinoma in situ, and by excluding cases diagnosed shortly (6 months, 1 or 2 years) after blood drawing.

The results were not affected by excluding cases diagnosed during the first 5 years of follow-up.

We also performed sensitivity analyses by excluding cases diagnosed within the first 2 years of follow-up and found similar results.

By excluding cases and controls who had <2 years of history in their medical record before the index date we reduced the risk of including prevalent, rather than incident, liver cancer cases.

We required diagnostic codes on separate days to increase the specificity of the definition, by excluding cases in which a single mention may be recorded to justify a diagnostic test to rule out that condition.

Additionally, it is possible that, by excluding cases and controls with a family history of breast cancer, and assuming that women with such history are more likely to be of European origin [ 16, 58], the ancestry differences between affected and unaffected individuals may have been reduced.