In this episode, Dennis M. Bier MD Young Career Editor Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD speaks with first author, Sachelly Julián-Serrano and leader author, Rachael Z Stolzenberg-Solomon, of the recently published AJCN manuscript “Hepcidin-regulating iron metabolism genes and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a pathway analysis of genome-wide association studies (https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqab217)”. In this episode, we dive into genetic epidemiology approaches, iron metabolism, and the risk of PDAC with our 2 guest authors from the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute.Be sure to connect with us on twitter ( Sachelly Julián-Serrano: @sachellyjs; AJCN: @AJCNutrition; Dr. Klatt: @kcklatt. Find all of the publications from the American Society for Nutrition (@nutritionorg; @jnutritionorg) at our website: https://nutrition.org/publications/ (https://nutrition.org/publications/).