The heritability of mammographic breast density and circulating sex-hormone levels: Two independent breast cancer risk factors

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2167-2175

  Varghese, Jajini S ^a,c   Smith, Paula L ^a   Folkerd, Elizabeth ^d   Brown, Judith ^a   Leyland, Jean ^a   Audley, Tina ^a   Warren, Ruth M L ^b   Dowsett, Mitchell ^d   Easton, Douglas F ^a   Thompson, Deborah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HERITABILITY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84871286128     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-12-0789     Document Type: Article

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