Identification of novel common breast cancer risk variants at the 6q25 locus among Latinas

Identification of novel common breast cancer risk variants at the 6q25 locus among Latinas

Abstract Background Breast cancer is a partially heritable trait and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified over 180 common genetic variants associated with breast cancer. We have previously performed breast cancer GWAS in Latinas and identified a strongly protective single nucleotid...

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Main Authors: Joshua Hoffman, Laura Fejerman, Donglei Hu, Scott Huntsman, Min Li, Esther M. John, Gabriela Torres-Mejia, Larry Kushi, Yuan Chun Ding, Jeffrey Weitzel, Susan L. Neuhausen, Paul Lott, COLUMBUS Consortium, Magdalena Echeverry, Luis Carvajal-Carmona, Esteban Burchard, Celeste Eng, Jirong Long, Wei Zheng, Olufunmilayo Olopade, Dezheng Huo, Christopher Haiman, Elad Ziv
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-01-01
Series:Breast Cancer Research
Subjects:
Genome wide association study
Fine mapping
Hispanic/Latino populations
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13058-018-1085-9

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