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Clinical correlates of low-risk variants in FGFR2, TNRC9, MAP3K1, LSP1 and 8q24 in a Dutch cohort of incident breast cancer cases.
Breast cancer research : BCR - 1 Jan 2007
Huijts Petra E A, Vreeswijk Maaike P G, Kroeze-Jansema Karin H G, Jacobi Catharina E, Seynaeve Caroline, Krol-Warmerdam Elly M M, Wijers-Koster Pauline M, Blom Jannet C, Pooley Karen A, Klijn Jan G M, Tollenaar Rob A E M, Devilee Peter, van Asperen Christi J
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Seven SNPs in five genomic loci were recently found to confer a mildly increased risk of breast cancer. METHODS: We have investigated the correlations between disease characteristics and the patient genotypes of these SNPs in an unselected prospective cohort of 1,267 consecutive patients with primary breast cancer. RESULTS: Heterozygote carriers and minor allele homozygote carriers for SNP rs889312...
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