Genetic risk score associated with breast cancer risk; predictive of type of disease

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 20:21 in Health & Medicine

Women with higher risk scores that consisted of having certain genetic variants most strongly linked to breast cancer had an associated higher risk of breast cancer, with these scores also highly predictive of estrogen receptor-positive disease, according to a new study.

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