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Synergistic interaction of variants in CHEK2 and BRCA2 on breast cancer risk.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Sept 2009
Serrano-Fernández Pablo, Debniak Tadeusz, Górski Bohdan, Bogdanova Natalia, Dörk Thilo, Cybulski Cezary, Huzarski Tomasz, Byrski Tomasz, Gronwald Jacek, Wokołorczyk Dominika, Narod Steven A, Lubiński Jan
Abstract excerpt
We studied the effects of BRCA2 and CHEK2 variants on breast cancer risk in two case-control series from Poland and Belarus. The missense BRCA2 variant T1915M was associated with a significant reduction in breast cancer risk (OR = 0.62; 95% CI 0.49-0.79; P = 0.0007). Modest increases of breast ca...
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