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Distinct inherited metastasis susceptibility exists for different breast cancer subtypes: a prognosis study.
Breast cancer research : BCR - 1 Jan 2009
Hsieh Szu-Min, Look Maxime P, Sieuwerts Anieta M, Foekens John A, Hunter Kent W
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INTRODUCTION: Previous studies in mouse models and pilot epidemiology studies have demonstrated that inherited polymorphisms are associated with inherited risk of tumor progression and poor outcome in human breast cancer. To extend these studies and gain better understanding of the function of inherited polymorphism in breast cancer progression, a validation prognosis study was performed in a large independent...
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