Association between common variation in 120 candidate genes and breast cancer risk.

Association studies in candidate genes have been widely used to search for common low penetrance susceptibility alleles, but few definite associations have been established. We have conducted association studies in breast cancer using an empirical single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) tagging approac...

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Main Authors: Paul D P Pharoah, Jonathan Tyrer, Alison M Dunning, Douglas F Easton, Bruce A J Ponder, SEARCH Investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-03-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1828694?pdf=render