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Evaluating 17 breast cancer susceptibility loci in the Nashville breast health study.
Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Sept 2015
Han Mi-Ryung, Deming-Halverson Sandra, Cai Qiuyin, Wen Wanqing, Shrubsole Martha J, Shu Xiao-Ou, Zheng Wei, Long Jirong
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BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have discovered multiple genetic loci associated with breast cancer risk. Investigating these loci would be helpful to evaluate previous findings and identify causal variants for breast cancer. We evaluated index SNPs in 17 of these loci in a study of 1,511 cases and 1,454 controls of European descent. METHODS: We investigated the overall association with breast cancer...
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