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Heritable Susceptibility to Breast Cancer among African-American Women in the Detroit Research on Cancer Survivors Study.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Nov 2020
Purrington Kristen S, Raychaudhuri Sreejata, Simon Michael S, Clark Julie, Ratliff Valerie, Dyson Gregory, Craig Douglas B, Boerner Julie L, Beebe-Dimmer Jennifer L, Schwartz Ann G
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BACKGROUND: African-American women have high rates of breast cancer associated with hereditary features. However, no studies have reported the prevalence of inherited variation across all genes known to be breast cancer risk factors among African-American patients with breast cancer not selected for high-risk characteristics. METHODS: We evaluated 182 African-American women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer...
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