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Do placental genes affect maternal breast cancer? Association between offspring's CGB5 and CSH1 gene variants and maternal breast cancer risk.
Cancer research - 1 Dec 2008
Chen Yu, Kibriya Muhammad G, Jasmine Farzana, Santella Regina M, Senie Ruby T, Ahsan Habibul
Abstract excerpt
The protective effect of full-term pregnancy against breast cancer is thought to be induced by two placental hormones: human chorionic gonadotropin and human chorionic somatotropin hormone (CSH) produced by the placental trophoblastic cells. We hypothesized that variants in placental genes encodi...
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