Androgen Receptor Exon 1 CAG Repeat Length and Breast Cancer in Women Before Age Forty Years
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstitutePublished 2 June 1999
Amanda B. Spurdle, Gillian S. Dite, X Chen, Carol Mayne, Melissa C. Southey, Leigh Batten
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There was no evidence for an association between AR exon 1 CAGn length and breast cancer risk in women under the age of 40, despite having 80% power to detect modest effects.
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We found no evidence for an association between AR exon 1 CAGn length and breast cancer risk in women under the age of 40, despite having 80% power to detect modest effects.
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MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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