Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kinney N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734450 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kinney Nick N Varghese Robin T RT Anandakrishnan Ramu R Garner Harold R Skip HRS
Cancer informatics 20171213
African American woman are 43% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women and have increased the risk of tumor recurrence despite lower incidence. We investigate variations in microsatellite genomic regions-a type of repetitive DNA-and possible links to the breast cancer mortality gap. We screen 33 854 microsatellites in germline DNA of African American women with and without breast cancer: 4 are statistically significant. These are located in the 3' UTR (untranslated region) of gene ...[more]