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SUBMITTER: Quan L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4159088 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Quan Lei L Quan Lei L Gong Zhihong Z Yao Song S Bandera Elisa V EV Zirpoli Gary G Hwang Helena H Roberts Michelle M Ciupak Gregory G Davis Warren W Sucheston Lara L Pawlish Karen K Bovbjerg Dana H DH Jandorf Lina L Cabasag Citadel C Coignet Jean-Gabriel JG Ambrosone Christine B CB Hong Chi-Chen CC
International journal of cancer 20131008 6
Disparities in breast cancer biology are evident between American women of African ancestry (AA) and European ancestry (EA) and may be due, in part, to differences in immune function. To assess the potential role of constitutional host immunity on breast carcinogenesis, we tested associations between breast cancer risk and 47 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 26 cytokine-related genes of the adaptive immune system using 650 EA (n = 335 cases) and 864 AA (n = 458 cases) women from the Wom ...[more]