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A genome-wide association study of contralateral breast cancer in the Women's Environmental Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study.
Breast cancer research : BCR - 23 Jan 2024
Sun Xiaohui, Reiner Anne S, Tran Anh Phong, Watt Gordon P, Oh Jung Hun, Mellemkjær Lene, Lynch Charles F, Knight Julia A, John Esther M, Malone Kathleen E, Liang Xiaolin, Woods Meghan, Derkach Andriy, Concannon Patrick, Bernstein Jonine L, Shu Xiang
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BACKGROUND: Contralateral breast cancer (CBC) is the most common second primary cancer diagnosed in breast cancer survivors, yet the understanding of the genetic susceptibility of CBC, particularly with respect to common variants, remains incomplete. This study aimed to investigate the genetic basis of CBC to better understand this malignancy. FINDINGS: We performed a genome-wide association analysis in the...
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