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SUBMITTER: Ghoussaini M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4931895 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ghoussaini Maya M Pharoah Paul D P PD
Future oncology (London, England) 20090601 5
Breast cancer is the most commonly occurring invasive cancer among women and its estimated incidence rate worldwide is approximately 1 million cases annually. Although several breast cancer susceptibility genes have been identified over the past two decades, it is likely that many genes with modest effects are yet to be found. In this review, we discuss the progress that has been recently made with the emergence of empirical genome-wide association studies for breast cancer and the identificatio ...[more]