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Risk of genome-wide association study newly identified genetic variants for breast cancer in Chinese women of Heilongjiang Province.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Jul 2011
Jiang Yongdong, Han Jiguang, Liu Jing, Zhang Guoqiang, Wang Lihong, Liu Feng, Zhang Xianyu, Zhao Yashuang, Pang Da
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Recent genome-wide association studies have identified seven single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with breast cancer, but mainly in Europeans. In this study, the authors evaluated the effect of these loci on breast cancer and its disease characteristics in women from northeast of China, Heilongjiang Province. Seven SNPs were successfully genotyped in 492 breast cancer patients and 510 healthy...
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