A genome-wide "pleiotropy scan" does not identify new susceptibility loci for estrogen receptor negative breast cancer.

Approximately 15-30% of all breast cancer tumors are estrogen receptor negative (ER-). Compared with ER-positive (ER+) disease they have an earlier age at onset and worse prognosis. Despite the vast number of risk variants identified for numerous cancer types, only seven loci have been unambiguously...

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Main Authors: Daniele Campa, Myrto Barrdahl, Konstantinos K Tsilidis, Gianluca Severi, W Ryan Diver, Afshan Siddiq, Stephen Chanock, Robert N Hoover, Regina G Ziegler, Christine D Berg, Saundra S Buys, Christopher A Haiman, Brian E Henderson, Fredrick R Schumacher, Loïc Le Marchand, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Sara Lindström, David J Hunter, Susan E Hankinson, Walter C Willett, Peter Kraft, David G Cox, Kay-Tee Khaw, Anne Tjønneland, Laure Dossus, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Salvatore Panico, Carla H van Gils, Elisabete Weiderpass, Aurelio Barricarte, Malin Sund, Mia M Gaudet, Graham Giles, Melissa Southey, Laura Baglietto, Jenny Chang-Claude, Rudolf Kaaks, Federico Canzian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3921107?pdf=render