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Breast Cancer
New findings from Medical College describe advances in breast cancer
March 26th, 2009
"To evaluate the association between HER2 codon 655 polymorphism and breast cancer risk in this meta-analysis. A comprehensive search was performed to identify all case-control studies investigating such association," scientists writing in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment report. "Statistical analyses were conducted with software MIX 1.54. Twenty eligible reports, including 10,642 cases/11,259 controls, were identified. In overall analysis, the Val allele frequency in cases was significantly higher than that in controls (OR = 1.0921, 95% CI: 1.0013-1.191, P = 0.0466), while no associations were found in both recessive and dominant models. In...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-03-26)
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