Common genetic variation in adiponectin, leptin, and leptin receptor and association with breast cancer subtypes

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 593-606

  Nyante, Sarah J ^a,b,e   Gammon, Marilie D ^a,b   Kaufman, Jay S ^c   Bensen, Jeannette T ^a,b   Lin, Dan Yu ^a,b   Barnholtz Sloan, Jill S ^d   Hu, Yijuan ^a   He, Qianchuan ^a   Luo, Jingchun ^b   Millikan, Robert C ^a,b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiponectin; Breast cancer; Leptin; Leptin receptor; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Subtypes

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ADIPOQ GENE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEP GENE; LEPR GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RACE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TUMOR GENE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADIPONECTIN; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEPTIN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORTH CAROLINA; ODDS RATIO; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WAIST-HIP RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052611373     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1517-z     Document Type: Article

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