High mammographic density in women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Caswell, Jennifer L ^a   Kerlikowske, Karla ^a   Shepherd, John A ^a   Cummings, Steven R ^b   Hu, Donglei ^a   Huntsman, Scott ^a   Ziv, Elad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CAUCASIAN; DENSITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARITY; PERCENT MAMMOGRAPHIC DENSITY; POSTMENOPAUSAL HORMONE THERAPY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; GENETICS; MAMMARY GLAND; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JEWS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84877617128     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr3424     Document Type: Article

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