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BRCA1 promoter methylation in peripheral blood cells is associated with increased risk of breast cancer with BRCA1 promoter methylation.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Aug 2011
Iwamoto Takashi, Yamamoto Noriaki, Taguchi Tetsuya, Tamaki Yasuhiro, Noguchi Shinzaburo
Abstract excerpt
BRCA1 promoter methylation reportedly plays an important part in the pathogenesis of human breast cancer. In the present study, we investigated whether or not BRCA1 promoter methylation in peripheral blood cells (PBCs) can serve as a risk factor for developing breast cancer. The association of BRCA1 promoter methylation in PBCs with breast cancer risk was examined in a case-control study (200 breast cancer...
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