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SUBMITTER: Terry KL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3076782 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Terry Kathryn L KL Vitonis Allison F AF Hernandez Dena D Lurie Galina G Song Honglin H Ramus Susan J SJ Titus-Ernstoff Linda L Carney Michael E ME Wilkens Lynne R LR Gentry-Maharaj Aleksandra A Menon Usha U Gayther Simon A SA Pharaoh Paul D PD Goodman Marc T MT Cramer Daniel W DW Birrer Michael J MJ
International journal of molecular epidemiology and genetics 20100726 4
Recent epidemiologic evidence supports a role for MUC1 in ovarian carcinogenesis; therefore, we hypothesized that common genetic variation in the genes responsible for glycosylation of MUC1 may influence ovarian cancer risk. In a genome-wide association study of ovarian cancer, we observed an association between a non-synonymous SNP (rs2271077) in the UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-d-galactosamine: polypeptide N-acetylgalactosainyltransferase 2 (GALNT2) gene and ovarian cancer risk (p=0.005). We sought to v ...[more]