72 genetic variants associated with breast cancer risk found

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/1710...

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50696/title/Genetic-Risk-Factors-for-Breast-Cancer-Identified/

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"Two studies published today (October 23) document a slew of common genetic variants that correlate with an increased or decreased risk of developing breast cancer. For one study, published in Nature, researchers considered the genotypes of more than 100,000 breast cancer patients and a similar number of cancer-free controls at genetic loci across the genome and found 65 new genetic variants associated with cancer risk. The second study, published in Nature Genetics, used similar methods but only included patients with the rarer estrogen-receptor–negative breast cancers; this study identified 10 new variants, three of which overlapped with the first study. Researchers hope that these variants will help doctors to better predict a woman's breast cancer risk based on her genome."

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