Breast Cancer Research

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Breast cancer susceptibility loci and mammographic density

Rulla M Tamimi1,2*, David Cox1,2, Peter Kraft2, Graham A Colditz3, Susan E Hankinson1,2 and David J Hunter1,2

Author Affiliations

1 Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

2 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

3 Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA

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Breast Cancer Research 2008, 10:R66 doi:10.1186/bcr2127

Published: 5 August 2008

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Additional file 1:

A Word document containing a table that lists the mean percentage of mammographic density according to second-stage single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that were not validated in stage 3 Breast Cancer Association Consortium SNPs among controls only, Nurses' Health Study controls (1989 to 1998).

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A Word document containing a table that lists the mean absolute (cm2) dense area according to breast cancer susceptibility loci, Nurses' Health Study controls (1989 to 1998).

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A Word document containing a table that lists the mean absolute (cm2) non-dense area according to breast cancer susceptibility loci, Nurses' Health Study controls (1989 to 1998).

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A Word document containing a table that lists the mean percentage mammographic density according to second-stage SNPs that were not validated in stage 3 BCAC SNPs among controls.

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