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SUBMITTER: Cheng I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2878205 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cheng Iona I Stram Daniel O DO Burtt Noël P NP Gianniny Lauren L Garcia Rachel R RR Pooler Loreall L Henderson Brian E BE Le Marchand Loïc L Haiman Christopher A CA
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 20090512 6
IGF2R has been proposed to be a tumor suppressor gene given its antagonist role on cellular growth and evidence of loss of heterozygosity in several cancers, including breast cancer. To investigate whether inherited differences in potentially functional IGF2R variants influence the risk of breast cancer, we sequenced 46 exons of IGF2R to identify novel missense single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and tested 12 missense SNPs for their associations with breast cancer risk among 1,614 breast canc ...[more]