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Breast cancer risk assessment with five independent genetic variants and two risk factors in Chinese women.
Breast cancer research : BCR - 23 Jan 2012
Dai Juncheng, Hu Zhibin, Jiang Yue, Shen Hao, Dong Jing, Ma Hongxia, Shen Hongbing
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INTRODUCTION: Recently, several genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified novel single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with breast cancer risk. However, most of the studies were conducted among Caucasians and only one from Chinese. METHODS: In the current study, we first tested whether 15 SNPs identified by previous GWAS were also breast cancer marker SNPs in this Chinese population. Then,...
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