As shown in Table 10, effect estimates obtained from the hospital-based external verification cohort closely paralleled those from the national CHARLS sample across all prespecified outcomes: early-life undernutrition was associated with elevated CRP (adjusted OR 1.46 vs 1.61), elevated WBC counts (adjusted OR 1.28 vs 1.49), and incident cancer (adjusted OR 1.52 vs 1.63; adjusted HR 1.59 vs 2.04). The gene discussed is CRP; the disease is cancer.