Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Breast cancer risk"

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    • Genome-wide association study of susceptibility loci for breast cancer in Sardinian population 

      Palomba, Grazia; Loi, Angela; Porcu, Eleonora; Cossu, Antonio; Zara, Ilenia; Budroni, Mario; Dei, Mariano; Lai, Sandra; Mulas, Antonella; Olmeo, Nina; Ionta, Maria Teresa; Atzori, Francesco; Cuccuru, Gianmauro; Pitzalis, Maristella; Zoledziewska, Magdalena; Olla, Nazario; Lovicu, Mario; Pisano, Marina; Abecasis, Gonçalo R.; Uda, Manuela; Tanda, Francesco; Michailidou, Kyriaki; Easton, Douglas F.; Chanock, Stephen J.; Hoover, Robert N.; Hunter, David J.; Schlessinger, David; Sanna, Serena; Crisponi, Laura; Palmieri, Giuseppe (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Despite progress in identifying genes associated with breast cancer, many more risk loci exist. Genome-wide association analyses in genetically-homogeneous populations, such as that of Sardinia (Italy), could ...

    • A prospective study of angiogenic markers and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in the prostate, lung, colorectal, and ovarian cancer screening trial 

      Falk, Roni T.; Staff, Annetine Cathrine; Bradwin, Gary; Karumanchi, S. Ananth; Troisi , Rebecca (Springer International Publishing, 2016)
      Purpose Pro-angiogenic factors are positively associated with breast tumor staging and poorer prognosis, but their role in the etiology of breast cancer has not been assessed. Methods: We measured serum levels of the ...

    • Short-term weight gain and breast cancer risk by hormone receptor classification among pre- and postmenopausal women 

      Rosner, Bernard; Eliassen, A. Heather; Toriola, Adetunji T.; Hankinson, Susan E.; Willett, Walter C.; Natarajan, Loki; Colditz, Graham A. (Springer US, 2015)
      Obesity is well established as a cause of postmenopausal breast cancer incidence and mortality. In contrast, adiposity in early life reduces breast cancer incidence. However, whether short-term weight change influences ...