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SUBMITTER: Amankwah EK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3176661 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Amankwah Ernest K EK Kelemen Linda E LE Wang Qinggang Q Song Honglin H Chenevix-Trench Georgia G Beesley Jonathan J Webb Penelope M PM Pearce Celeste L CL Wu Anna H AH Pike Malcolm C MC Stram Daniel O DO Chang-Claude Jenny J Wang-Gohrke Shan S Ness Roberta B RB Goode Ellen L EL Cunningham Julie M JM Fridley Brooke L BL Vierkant Robert A RA Tworoger Shelley S SS Whittemore Alice S AS McGuire Valerie V Sieh Weiva W Gayther Simon A SA Gentry-Maharaj Aleksandra A Menon Usha U Ramus Susan J SJ Rossing Mary Anne MA Doherty Jennifer A JA Goodman Marc T MT Carney Michael E ME Lurie Galina G Wilkens Lynne R LR Kjær Susanne Krüger SK Høgdall Estrid E Cramer Daniel W DW Terry Kathryn L KL Garcia-Closas Montserrat M Yang Hannah H Lissowska Jolanta J Anton-Culver Hoda H Ziogas Argyrios A Schildkraut Joellen M JM Berchuck Andrew A Pharoah Paul D P PD
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 20110317 5
<h4>Background</h4>We previously reported an association between rs2660753, a prostate cancer susceptibility polymorphism, and invasive epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC; OR = 1.2, 95% CI=1.0-1.4, P(trend) = 0.01) that showed a stronger association with the serous histological subtype (OR = 1.3, 95% CI = 1.1-1.5, P(trend) = 0.003).<h4>Methods</h4>We sought to replicate this association in 12 other studies comprising 4,482 cases and 6,894 controls of white non-Hispanic ancestry in the Ovarian Cancer ...[more]