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Polychlorinated biphenyls, cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1) polymorphisms, and breast cancer risk among African American women and white women in North Carolina: a population-based case-control study.
Breast cancer research : BCR - 1 Jan 2005
Li Yu, Millikan Robert C, Bell Douglas A, Cui Lisa, Tse Chiu-Kit J, Newman Beth, Conway Kathleen
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INTRODUCTION: Epidemiologic studies have not shown a strong relationship between blood levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and breast cancer risk. However, two recent studies showed a stronger association among postmenopausal white women with the inducible M2 polymorphism in the cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1) gene. METHODS: In a population-based case-control study, we evaluated breast cancer risk in relation...
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