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Estrogen receptor genotype is associated with risk of venous thromboembolism during tamoxifen therapy.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Jun 2009
Onitilo Adedayo A, McCarty Catherine A, Wilke Russell A, Glurich Ingrid, Engel Jessica M, Flockhart David A, Nguyen Anne, Li Lang, Mi Deming, Skaar Todd C, Jin Yan
Abstract excerpt
Thromboembolism is a serious complication of tamoxifen therapy in women with breast cancer. Banked DNA from tamoxifen-treated individuals with breast cancer from the Marshfield Clinic Personalized Medicine Research Project, a population-based DNA repository, was tested for association between incidence of tamoxifen-associated thromboembolic events (TTE) and single nucleotide polymorphisms encoding the estrogen...
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