Article
CHEK2 1100delC variant and breast cancer risk in Caucasians: a meta-analysis based on 25 studies with 29,154 cases and 37,064 controls.
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP - 1 Jan 2012
Yang Yuan, Zhang Fan, Wang Yang, Liu Sheng-Chun
Abstract excerpt
Links between the CHEK2 1100delC heterozygote and breast cancer risk have been extensively explored. However, both positive and negative associations with this variant have been reported in individual studies. For a detailed assessment of the CHEK2 1100delC heterozygote and breast cancer risk, relevant studies published as recently as May 2012 were identified using PUBMED and EMBASE and selected using a priori...
Topics
- Alleles
- Breast Neoplasms
- Case-Control Studies
- Checkpoint Kinase 2
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Mutation
- Odds Ratio
