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Ovarian cancer risk associated with inherited inflammation-related variants.
Cancer research - 1 Mar 2012
White Kristin L, Schildkraut Joellen M, Palmieri Rachel T, Iversen Edwin S, Berchuck Andrew, Vierkant Robert A, Rider David N, Charbonneau Bridget, Cicek Mine S, Sutphen Rebecca, Birrer Michael J, Pharoah Paul P D, Song Honglin, Tyrer Jonathan, Gayther Simon A, Ramus Susan J, Wentzensen Nicolas, Yang Hannah P, Garcia-Closas Montserrat, Phelan Catherine M, Cunningham Julie M, Fridley Brooke L, Sellers Thomas A, Goode Ellen L
Abstract excerpt
The importance of inflammation pathways to the development of many human cancers prompted us to examine the associations between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in inflammation-related genes and risk of ovarian cancer. In a multisite case-control study, we genotyped SNPs in a large panel of...
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