Blood DNA methylation and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis of four prospective cohort studies

Blood DNA methylation and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis of four prospective cohort studies

Abstract Background Environmental and genetic factors play an important role in the etiology of breast cancer. Several small blood-based DNA methylation studies have reported risk associations with methylation at individual CpGs and average methylation levels; however, these findings require validat...

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Main Authors: Clara Bodelon, Srikant Ambatipudi, Pierre-Antoine Dugué, Annelie Johansson, Joshua N. Sampson, Belynda Hicks, Eric Karlins, Amy Hutchinson, Cyrille Cuenin, Veronique Chajès, Melissa C. Southey, Isabelle Romieu, Graham G. Giles, Dallas English, Silvia Polidoro, Manuela Assumma, Laura Baglietto, Paolo Vineis, Gianluca Severi, Zdenko Herceg, James M. Flanagan, Roger L. Milne, Montserrat Garcia-Closas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:Breast Cancer Research
Subjects:
Breast cancer risk
Blood DNA methylation
Prospective study
Meta-analysis
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13058-019-1145-9

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