Predictors of mammographic density: Insights gained from a novel regression analysis of a twin study

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3474-3481

  Dite, Gillian S ^a   Gurrin, Lyle C ^a   Byrnes, Graham B ^a   Stone, Jennifer ^a   Gunasekara, Anoma ^d   McCredie, Margaret R E ^b   English, Dallas R ^a,c   Giles, Graham G ^c   Cawson, Jennifer ^a   Hegele, Robert A ^e   Chiarelli, Anna M ^f   Yaffe, Martin J ^g   Boyd, Norman F ^d   Hopper, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

^g SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TWINS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUSTRALIA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH AMERICA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 57449114168     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2636     Document Type: Article

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