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No association of risk variants for diabetes and obesity with breast cancer: the Multiethnic Cohort and PAGE studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Body mass index is an established risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer. Epidemiologic studies have also reported a positive association between type 2 diabetes (T2D) and breast cancer risk.

Methods

To investigate a genetic basis linking these common phenotypes with breast cancer, we tested 31 common variants for T2D and obesity in a case-control study of 1,915 breast cancer cases and 2,884 controls nested within the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) study.

Results

Following adjustment for multiple tests, we found no significant association between any variant and breast cancer risk. Summary scores comprising the numbers of risk alleles for T2D and/or obesity were also not found to be significantly associated with breast cancer risk.

Conclusions

Our findings provide no evidence for association between established T2D and/or obesity risk variants and breast cancer risk among women of various ethnicities.

Impact

These results suggest that the potential for a shared biology between T2D/obesity and breast cancer is not due to pleiotropic effects of these risk variants.

SUBMITTER: Chen F

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4201112 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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No association of risk variants for diabetes and obesity with breast cancer: the Multiethnic Cohort and PAGE studies.

Chen Fang F Wilkens Lynne R LR Monroe Kristine R KR Stram Daniel O DO Kolonel Laurence N LN Henderson Brian E BE Le Marchand Loïc L Haiman Christopher A CA

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 20110225 5

<h4>Background</h4>Body mass index is an established risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer. Epidemiologic studies have also reported a positive association between type 2 diabetes (T2D) and breast cancer risk.<h4>Methods</h4>To investigate a genetic basis linking these common phenotypes with breast cancer, we tested 31 common variants for T2D and obesity in a case-control study of 1,915 breast cancer cases and 2,884 controls nested within the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) study.<h4>Results</h4 ...[more]

PMID: 21357383

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No association of risk variants for diabetes and obesity with breast cancer: the Multiethnic Cohort and PAGE studies.

Background

Methods

Results

Conclusions

Impact

Publications

No association of risk variants for diabetes and obesity with breast cancer: the Multiethnic Cohort and PAGE studies.

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