Effects of obesity on breast aromatase expression and systemic metabo-inflammation in women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

Effects of obesity on breast aromatase expression and systemic metabo-inflammation in women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

Abstract Obesity is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women and decreased risk in pre-menopausal women. Conversely, in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers, pre-menopausal obesity is associated with early-onset breast cancer. Here we show that obese, pre-menopausal BRCA1/2 m...

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Main Authors: Neil M. Iyengar, Xi Kathy Zhou, Hillary Mendieta, Omar El-Hely, Dilip D. Giri, Lisle Winston, Domenick J. Falcone, Hanhan Wang, Lingsong Meng, Taehoon Ha, Michael Pollak, Monica Morrow, Andrew J. Dannenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:npj Breast Cancer
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-021-00226-8

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-021-00226-8

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