EPID-01CHICKEN POX AND GLIOMA RISK: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE GLIOGENE INTERNATIONAL CASE-CONTROL STUDY
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The role of viral infections in gliomagenesis has long been in question. Varicella zoster virus (VZV) is a neurotropic alpha-herpesvirus that causes chicken pox among initial infection and shingles upon re-activation later in life. VZV infection has been associated with lower glioma risk in some studies, but several gaps in knowledge remain. Using data from our large consortium, the Glioma International Case-Control Study (GICC), we examined the association between history of chicken pox and glioma risk, overall, by tumor subtype, and by age at glioma diagnosis. Data on 4545 glioma cases and 4173 controls from 14 different sites across five countries was combined using maximum likelihood estimation/restricted maximum likelihood meta-analysis methods. Reporting a positive history of chicken pox was associated with a 21% lower glioma risk, compared to having a negative history of chicken pox (95% CI: 0.65-0.96). When stratified by glioma subtype, a significant protective effect was observed among glioblastoma (GBM) cases (meta-OR: 0.72; 95% CI: 0.55-0.95), but not among the non-GBM group (meta-OR: 0.89; 95% CI: 0.70-1.13). Our findings corroborate previous reports on the protective effect of chicken pox on glioma risk in one of the largest study populations available on this rare and highly fatal disease.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".