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The role of the fat mass and obesity associated gene (FTO) in breast cancer risk

BACKGROUND: Obesity has been shown to increase breast cancer risk. FTO is a novel gene which has been identified through genome wide association studies (GWAS) to be related to obesity. Our objective was to evaluate tissue expression of FTO in breast and the role of FTO SNPs in predicting breast can...

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Autores principales: Kaklamani, Virginia, Yi, Nengjun, Sadim, Maureen, Siziopikou, Kalliopi, Zhang, Kui, Xu, Yanfei, Tofilon, Sarah, Agarwal, Surbhi, Pasche, Boris, Mantzoros, Christos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3089782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21489227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-12-52