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Nature Research, Nature Genetics, 4(47), p. 373-380, 2015

DOI: 10.1038/ng.3242

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Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

Journal article published in 2015 by Kyriaki Michailidou, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Sara Lindstrom, Erik van Limbergen, Michael J. Lush, Barbara J. Perkins, Mel J. Maranian, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Rob B. van der Luijt, Sune F. Nielsen, Clare Turnbull, Qin Wang, Julian Peto, Mitul Shah, Nazneen Rahman and other authors.
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Abstract

Genome wide association studies (GWAS) and large scale replication studies have identified common variants in 79 loci associated with breast cancer, explaining ~14% of the familial risk of the disease. To identify new susceptibility loci, we performed a meta-analysis of 11 GWAS comprising of 15,748 breast cancer cases and 18,084 controls, and 46,785 cases and 42,892 controls from 41 studies genotyped on a 200K custom array (iCOGS). Analyses were restricted to women of European ancestry. Genotypes for more than 11M SNPs were generated by imputation using the 1000 Genomes Project reference panel. We identified 15 novel loci associated with breast cancer at P