A genome-wide scan for breast cancer risk haplotypes among African American women.

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) simultaneously investigating hundreds of thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) have become a powerful tool in the investigation of new disease susceptibility loci. Haplotypes are sometimes thought to be superior to SNPs and are promising in genetic...

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Main Authors: Chi Song, Gary K Chen, Robert C Millikan, Christine B Ambrosone, Esther M John, Leslie Bernstein, Wei Zheng, Jennifer J Hu, Regina G Ziegler, Sarah Nyante, Elisa V Bandera, Sue A Ingles, Michael F Press, Sandra L Deming, Jorge L Rodriguez-Gil, Stephen J Chanock, Peggy Wan, Xin Sheng, Loreall C Pooler, David J Van Den Berg, Loic Le Marchand, Laurence N Kolonel, Brian E Henderson, Chris A Haiman, Daniel O Stram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3585353?pdf=render