RhyothemisGenetics may influence the effects of vitamin E on cancer risk [news article, 2019]
https://ecancer.org/en/news/15262-genetics-may-influence-the-effects-of-vitamin-e-on-cancer-risk
' "Observational studies of people taking vitamin E have reported benefits, and studies in animal models have suggested a protective effect, but when vitamin E supplements were brought into placebo-controlled clinical trials, the results were null," said Kathryn Hall, PhD, MPH, from the Division of Preventive Medicine at the Brigham.
"This made it easy to assume that vitamin E just doesn't work. But what we've found is that it may have been protective in some and not in others, and that genetic variation is linked to these outcomes." '
