Common genetic variants associated with breast cancer and mammographic density measures that predict disease

Cancer Research

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1449-1458

  Odefrey, Fabrice ^a   Stone, Jennifer ^a   Gurrin, Lyle C ^a   Byrnes, Graham B ^a,c   Apicella, Carmel ^a   Dite, Gillian S ^a   Cawson, Jennifer N ^a   Giles, Graham G ^b   Treloar, Susan A ^d   English, Dallas R ^a   Hopper, John L ^a   Southey, Melissa C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DENSITY GRADIENT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MENOPAUSE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIBLING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL COUNT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS; TWINS;

EID: 76749096773     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-3495     Document Type: Article

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