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SUBMITTER: Ingle JN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3710533 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ingle James N JN Liu Mohan M Wickerham D Lawrence DL Schaid Daniel J DJ Wang Liewei L Mushiroda Taisei T Kubo Michiaki M Costantino Joseph P JP Vogel Victor G VG Paik Soonmyung S Goetz Matthew P MP Ames Matthew M MM Jenkins Gregory D GD Batzler Anthony A Carlson Erin E EE Flockhart David A DA Wolmark Norman N Nakamura Yusuke Y Weinshilboum Richard M RM
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The selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERM) tamoxifen and raloxifene can reduce the occurrence of breast cancer in high-risk women by 50%, but this U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved prevention therapy is not often used. We attempted to identify genetic factors that contribute to variation in SERM breast cancer prevention, using DNA from the NSABP P-1 and P-2 breast cancer prevention trials. An initial discovery genome-wide association study identified common single-nucleotide poly ...[more]