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Progesterone receptor polymorphisms and risk of breast cancer: results from two Australian breast cancer studies.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 May 2008
Johnatty Sharon E, Spurdle Amanda B, Beesley Jonathan, Chen Xiaoqing, Hopper John L, Duffy David L, Chenevix-Trench Georgia
Abstract excerpt
Association studies aimed at identifying breast cancer susceptibility variants in the progesterone receptor (PGR) gene have been previously reported in the literature with conflicting results, ranging from a protective effect conferred by the PROGINS allele in German Caucasian women, to an increased risk for the leucine variant of the Val660Leu (rs1042838) polymorphism in East Anglian cases. We report the results...
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