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A family-based genetic association study of variants in estrogen-metabolism genes COMT and CYP1B1 and breast cancer risk.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 May 2004
Ahsan Habibul, Chen Yu, Whittemore Alice S, Kibriya Muhammad G, Gurvich Irina, Senie Ruby T, Santella Regina M
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In this paper, we report findings from a family-based association study examining the association between polymorphisms in two key estrogen-metabolism genes CYP1B1 (codon 432 G --> C and codon 453 A --> G variants) and COMT (codon 158 G --> A variant) and female breast cancer. We conducted the study among 280 nuclear families containing one or more daughters with breast cancer with a total of 1124 family members...
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