Mammographic breast density and breast cancer: Evidence of a shared genetic basis

Cancer Research

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1478-1484

  Varghese, Jajini S ^a   Thompson, Deborah J ^a   Michailidou, Kyriaki ^a   Lindström, Sara ^b   Turnbull, Clare ^d   Brown, Judith ^a   Leyland, Jean ^a   Warren, Ruth M L ^a   Luben, Robert N ^a   Loos, Ruth J ^a   Wareham, Nicholas J ^a   Rommens, Johanna ^e   Paterson, Andrew D ^e,f   Martin, Lisa J ^g   Vachon, Celine M ^h   Scott, Christopher G ^h   Atkinson, Elizabeth J ^h   Couch, Fergus J ^h   Apicella, Carmel ⁱ   Southey, Melissa C ^j   Stone, Jennifer ⁱ   Li, Jingmei ^k,l   Eriksson, Louise ^k   Czene, Kamila ^k   Boyd, Norman F ^g   Hall, Per ^k   Hopper, John L ⁱ   Tamimi, Rulla M ^b,c   Rahman, Nazneen ^d   Easton, Douglas F ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^h MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^k KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^l GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PERCENT MAMMOGRAPHIC BREAST DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK;

EID: 84863287357     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-11-3295     Document Type: Article

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