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SUBMITTER: Fejerman L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4633366 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fejerman Laura L Stern Mariana C MC John Esther M EM Torres-Mejía Gabriela G Hines Lisa M LM Wolff Roger K RK Baumgartner Kathy B KB Giuliano Anna R AR Ziv Elad E Pérez-Stable Eliseo J EJ Slattery Martha L ML
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 20150912 11
<h4>Background</h4>Most genetic variants associated with breast cancer risk have been discovered in women of European ancestry, and only a few genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been conducted in minority groups. This research disparity persists in post-GWAS gene-environment interaction analyses. We tested the interaction between hormonal and lifestyle risk factors for breast cancer, and ten GWAS-identified SNPs among 2,107 Hispanic women with breast cancer and 2,587 unaffected controls ...[more]