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Hereditary Susceptibility for Triple Negative Breast Cancer Associated With Western Sub-Saharan African Ancestry
29 Jul 2019
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate subtype-specific risk of germline alleles associated with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) in African ancestry populations. BACKGROUND: Breast cancer (BC) mortality is higher in African American (AA) compared to White American (WA) women; this disparity is partly explained by 2-fold higher TNBC incidence. METHODS: We used a surgically maintained biospecimen cohort of 2884 BC cases....
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