Heritable Susceptibility to Breast Cancer among African-American Women in the Detroit Research on Cancer Survivors Study
Author(s) -
Kristen S. Purrington,
Sreejata Raychaudhuri,
Michael S. Simon,
Julie L. Clark,
Valerie Ratliff,
Gregory Dyson,
Douglas B. Craig,
Julie L. Boerner,
Jennifer BeebeDimmer,
Ann G. Schwartz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cancer epidemiology biomarkers and prevention
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.234
H-Index - 192
eISSN - 1538-7755
pISSN - 1055-9965
DOI - 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-20-0564
Subject(s) - breast cancer , mutyh , palb2 , cancer , medicine , oncology , germline mutation , gene , genetics , mutation , biology
African-American women have high rates of breast cancer associated with hereditary features. However, no studies have reported the prevalence of inherited variation across all genes known to be breast cancer risk factors among African-American patients with breast cancer not selected for high-risk characteristics.
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