Genetic variation in DNA repair pathway genes and premenopausal breast cancer risk

J Han, C Haiman, T Niu, Q Guo, DG Cox… - Breast cancer research …, 2009 - Springer
Purpose We comprehensively evaluated genetic variants in DNA repair genes with
premenopausal breast cancer risk. Methods In this nested case–control study of 239 …

Comprehensive screen of genetic variation in DNA repair pathway genes and postmenopausal breast cancer risk

GM Monsees, P Kraft, SJ Chanock, DJ Hunter… - Breast cancer research …, 2011 - Springer
Mistakes in DNA repair can result in sustained damage and genetic instability. We
comprehensively evaluated common variants in DNA repair pathway genes for their …

Polymorphisms of the DNA repair genes XPD (Lys751Gln) and XRCC1 (Arg399Gln and Arg194Trp): relationship to breast cancer risk and familial predisposition to …

AM Brewster, TJ Jorgensen, I Ruczinski… - Breast cancer research …, 2006 - Springer
Family history is a risk factor for breast cancer and could be due to shared environmental
factors or polymorphisms of cancer susceptibility genes. Deficient function of DNA repair …

Associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms in double-stranded DNA repair pathway genes and familial breast cancer

ME Sehl, LR Langer, JC Papp, L Kwan, JL Seldon… - Clinical Cancer …, 2009 - AACR
Purpose: DNA damage recognition and repair play a major role in risk for breast cancer. We
investigated 104 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in 17 genes whose protein …

Variants in DNA double-strand break repair genes and breast cancer susceptibility

B Kuschel, A Auranen, S McBride… - Human Molecular …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
We performed genetic association studies in a population-based breast cancer case–control
study analysing polymorphisms in genes involved in homologous recombination (NBS1 …

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in DNA repair genes and association with breast cancer risk in the web study

MR Roberts, PG Shields, CB Ambrosone, J Nie… - …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Base excision repair (BER) and nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathways repair damaged
DNA, and polymorphisms in these genes might affect breast cancer susceptibility. We …

DNA repair polymorphisms might contribute differentially on familial and sporadic breast cancer susceptibility: a study on a Portuguese population

S Costa, D Pinto, D Pereira, H Rodrigues… - Breast cancer research …, 2007 - Springer
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of polymorphisms in DNA repair genes as
genetic indicators of susceptibility to familial and sporadic breast cancer. We analysed DNA …

Polygenic model of DNA repair genetic polymorphisms in human breast cancer risk

TR Smith, EA Levine, RI Freimanis, SA Akman… - …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Genetic variations in DNA repair may impact repair functions, DNA damage and breast
cancer risk. Using data/samples collected from the first 752 Caucasians and 141 African …

Polymorphisms in DNA repair genes and breast cancer risk in Russian population: a case–control study

AS Shadrina, NA Ermolenko, UA Boyarskikh… - Clinical and …, 2016 - Springer
Genetic variation in DNA repair genes can alter an individual's capacity to repair damaged
DNA and influence the risk of cancer. We tested seven polymorphisms in DNA repair genes …

DNA double-strand break repair genotype and phenotype and breast cancer risk within sisters from the New York site of the Breast Cancer Family Registry (BCFR)

HC Wu, L Delgado-Cruzata, N Machella, Q Wang… - Cancer Causes & …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose We previously observed that poor DNA repair phenotype is associated with
increased breast cancer (BC) risk within families. Here, we examined whether genetic …