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MAPK genes interact with diet and lifestyle factors to alter risk of breast cancer: the Breast Cancer Health Disparities Study.
Nutrition and cancer - 1 Jan 2015
Slattery Martha L, Lundgreen Abbie, John Esther M, Torres-Mejia Gabriela, Hines Lisa, Giuliano Anna R, Baumgartner Kathy B, Stern Mariana C, Wolff Roger K
Abstract excerpt
Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) are integration points for multiple biochemical signals. We evaluated 13 MAPK genes with breast cancer risk and determined if diet and lifestyle factors mediated risk. Data from 3 population-based case-control studies conducted in Southwestern United States, California, and Mexico included 4183 controls and 3592 cases. Percent Indigenous American (IA) ancestry was...
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