Reproductive factors and familial predisposition for breast cancer by age 50 years. A case-control-family study for assessing main effects and possible gene-environment enteraction

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-48

  Becher, Heiko ^a   Schmidt, Silke ^b,c   Chang Claude, Jenny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Case only design; Gene carrier probability; Mixture logistic model; Population and sibling controls

Indexed keywords

CANCER;

ABORTION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FEEDING; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT GENE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GERMANY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MENARCHE; OVARY CANCER; PARITY; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; SIBLINGS;

EID: 0037318457     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg003     Document Type: Article

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