Breast Cancer Research

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CYP17 gene polymorphism in relation to breast cancer risk: a case-control study

Kristjana Einarsdóttir1,2*, Tove Rylander-Rudqvist3, Keith Humphreys1, Susanne Ahlberg4, Gudrun Jonasdottir1, Elisabete Weiderpass1,5, Kee S Chia6, Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg4, Ingemar Persson1,7, Jianjun Liu2, Per Hall1 and Sara Wedrén1,2,6

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

2 Population Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

3 Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

4 Division of Molecular Toxicology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

5 Cancer Registry of Norway, Montebello, Oslo, Norway

6 Centre for Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

7 Swedish Medical Products Agency, Uppsala, Sweden

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Breast Cancer Research 2005, 7:R890-R896 doi:10.1186/bcr1319


See related commentary by Little and Simard http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/7/6/238

Published: 14 September 2005

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Microsoft Word document detailing the PCR reaction conditions as well as primer and probe sequences used to perform the minisequencing and DASH methods.

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