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Polymorphisms in the TOX3/LOC643714 locus and risk of breast cancer in African-American women.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 May 2010
Ruiz-Narváez Edward A, Rosenberg Lynn, Cozier Yvette C, Cupples L Adrienne, Adams-Campbell Lucile L, Palmer Julie R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The rs3803662 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the TOX3/LOC643714 region was identified as a breast cancer susceptibility genetic variant in recent genome-wide association studies of women of European ancestry and has been replicated in other populations of European ancestry. The position of the causal variant tagged by the rs3803662 marker is still unknown. In fact, because the rs3803662...
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