Identification of a Breast Cancer Susceptibility Locus at 4q31.22 Using a Genome-Wide Association Study Paradigm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Sapkota, Yadav ^a,b   Yasui, Yutaka ^b   Lai, Raymond ^b   Sridharan, Malinee ^b   Robson, Paula J ^b,c   Cass, Carol E ^a,b   Mackey, John R ^a,b   Damaraju, Sambasivarao ^a,b  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; PAXILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK;

EID: 84878059556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062550     Document Type: Article

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