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Sun Exposure, Vitamin D Receptor Genetic Variants, and Risk of Breast Cancer in the Agricultural Health Study

Author(s) -

Lawrence S. Engel,

Jaya M. Satagopan,

Camelia S. Sima,

Irene Orlow,

Urvi Mujumdar,

Joseph Coble,

Pampa Roy,

Sarah Yoo,

Dale P. Sandler,

Michael C.R. Alavanja

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1206274

Subject(s) - breast cancer , medicine , vitamin d and neurology , calcitriol receptor , cohort , prospective cohort study , hazard ratio , case control study , nested case control study , estrogen receptor , cohort study , proportional hazards model , cancer , oncology , sunlight , confidence interval , physics , astronomy

Epidemiologic evidence suggests a negative relation between sunlight exposure and breast cancer risk. The hypothesized mechanism is sunlight-induced cutaneous synthesis of vitamin D.

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