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Molecular epidemiology, and possible real-world applications in breast cancer.
Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2016
Ito Hidemi, Matsuo Keitaro
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Gene-environment interaction, a key idea in molecular epidemiology, has enabled the development of personalized medicine. This concept includes personalized prevention. While genome-wide association studies have identified a number of genetic susceptibility loci in breast cancer risk, however, the application of this knowledge to practical prevention is still underway. Here, we briefly review the history of...
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