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Breast cancer susceptibility variants alter risk in familial ovarian cancer.
Familial cancer - 1 Dec 2010
Latif A, McBurney H J, Roberts S A, Lalloo F, Howell A, Evans D G, Newman W G
Abstract excerpt
Recent candidate gene and genome wide association studies have revealed novel loci associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. We evaluated the effect of these breast cancer associated variants on ovarian cancer risk in individuals with familial ovarian cancer both with and without BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. A total of 158 unrelated white British women (54 BRCA1/2 mutation positive and 104 BRCA1/2 mutation...
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