Associations between breast density and a panel of single nucleotide polymorphisms linked to breast cancer risk: A cohort study with digital mammography

BMC Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Keller, Brad M ^a   McCarthy, Anne Marie ^b   Chen, Jinbo ^a   Armstrong, Katrina ^b   Conant, Emily F ^a   Domchek, Susan M ^a   Kontos, Despina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Association study; Breast cancer; Breast density; Genetic risk factors; Race stratified; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DENSE AREA; ABSOLUTE DENSE VOLUME; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; AREA PERCENT DENSITY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; CANCER RISK; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GAIL LIFETIME RISK; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LSP1 GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEK10 GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TNRC9 GENE; VOLUME PERCENT DENSITY; ALLELE; BREAST TUMOR; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; MAMMARY GLAND; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALLELES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84928266663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-015-1159-3     Document Type: Article

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