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Breast cancer susceptibility variants alter risks in familial disease.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Feb 2010
Latif Ayse, Hadfield Kristen D, Roberts Stephen A, Shenton Andrew, Lalloo Fiona, Black Graeme C M, Howell Anthony, Evans D Gareth, Newman William G
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BACKGROUND: Recent candidate and genome-wide association studies have identified variants altering susceptibility to breast cancer. OBJECTIVE: To establish the relevance of these variants to breast cancer risk in familial breast cancer cases both with and without BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) mutations. METHODS: A cohort of unrelated individuals with breast cancer due to the presence of either BRCA1 (121) or BRCA2...
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