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Genetic ancestry and risk factors for breast cancer among Latinas in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Oct 2006
Ziv Elad, John Esther M, Choudhry Shweta, Kho Jennifer, Lorizio Wendy, Perez-Stable Eliseo J, Burchard Esteban Gonzalez
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BACKGROUND: Genetic association studies using case-control designs are susceptible to false-positive and false-negative results if there are differences in genetic ancestry between cases and controls. We measured genetic ancestry among Latinas in a population-based case-control study of breast cancer and tested the association between ancestry and known breast cancer risk factors. We reasoned that if genetic...
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