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Vitamin D intake, vitamin D receptor polymorphisms, and breast cancer risk among women living in the southwestern U.S.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Apr 2012
Rollison Dana E, Cole Ashley L, Tung Ko-Hui, Slattery Martha L, Baumgartner Kathy B, Byers Tim, Wolff Roger K, Giuliano Anna R
Abstract excerpt
No studies of dietary vitamin D intake and vitamin D receptor (VDR) have been conducted comparing breast risk among Hispanic women and non-Hispanic white (NHW) women. We investigated the association between vitamin D intake and breast cancer in a population-based case-control study of 1,527 NHW and 791 Hispanic breast cancer cases diagnosed in 1999-2004 in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado, and 1,599 NHW...
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