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SUBMITTER: Kitahara CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3518668 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kitahara Cari M CM Neta Gila G Pfeiffer Ruth M RM Kwon Deukwoo D Xu Li L Freedman Neal D ND Hutchinson Amy A AA Chanock Stephen J SJ Sturgis Erich M EM Sigurdson Alice J AJ Brenner Alina V AV
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 20121011 12
<h4>Background</h4>Epidemiologic studies have shown consistent associations between obesity and increased thyroid cancer risk, but, to date, no studies have investigated the relationship between thyroid cancer risk and obesity-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP).<h4>Methods</h4>We evaluated 575 tag SNPs in 23 obesity-related gene regions in a case-control study of 341 incident papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) cases and 444 controls of European ancestry. Logistic regression models, adjust ...[more]